Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

On top of the Housing Australia Future Fund, across our first two budgets, this government and this Prime Minister have committed in excess of $8 billion in new funding to deliver more houses, more supply and more relief for renters, because we want more Australians to have the security and the dignity of a decent home and a decent roof over their head. Yesterday, the Minister for Housing launched the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council's report into barriers to institutional investment in housing, and that report sets out a range of ways that we can help get more investment in housing in this country, but we are already taking a number of steps across a number of fronts. We are working with the states and local government—

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