Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Spence for that important question and for his support for our broad, ambitious housing agenda. It is ambitious, but importantly it's also achievable. The $575 million that we unlocked immediately means homes are under construction today because of the decisions that we made. The Housing Accord, in our first budget, meant another 10,000 affordable rental homes, matched by the states and territories with another 10,000 affordable rental homes. In our last budget, we had $2 billion for Housing Australia, to support more social and affordable homes, and changes to build-to-rent, again to encourage more rental homes to be built in Australia. Then of course there was our announcement last weekend of the $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator.

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