Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

There are still around 3,700 homes to be delivered under the social housing package. Those homes are going to provide a huge amount of work for tradespeople—contractors and builders—in our economy, but our housing packages and programs are a lot bigger than that. Almost 80,000 homes across the country—when you roll in NRAS, when you roll in the National Partnership Agreement on Social Housing and when you put in the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness—are going to help many, many people.

The one big threat to these programs—I have said this before and I will say it again—is the $70 billion hole that the Liberal Party, the coalition, have—