Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He's trying. We have the Housing Australia Future Fund, something that those opposite delayed month after month after month. They therefore delayed the building of housing for poor people and working-class people in our suburbs and in our regional towns. In addition to that we have our build-to-rent program. That's a tax incentive, a tax change, that we put in the last budget to encourage more investment in build-to-rent developments because we understand that it can't be just the public sector. We need to encourage that private sector investment.

We understand across all of this that the key is supply, and that's why we will continue to negotiate with the states and territories. At the moment we're working through our National Housing and Homelessness Agreement, the major funding body over a period of time. We've extended it by $1.7 billion for the additional year. (Time expired)

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