Local federal Labor MP, Justine Elliot has again launched an attack on Greens candidate Mandy Nolan when asked about the latest housing legislation being put forward by her party.
Echo questions around Labor’s $10B Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF), which became law a year ago, were not answered.
Instead, Mrs Elliot described the Greens as extreme, hypocritical, playing games and unnecessarily blocking her party’s latest housing bills. Labor’s ‘Build to Rent’ and ‘Help to Buy’ bills are before parliament, yet are being stalled by the Greens and the Coalition, with calls for improvements.
Labor’s ‘Build to Rent’ bill aims to encourage investment in the build-to-rent sector with tax concessions. Yet Ms Nolan says, ‘There is no modelling suggesting that any new homes will be built’.
She says, ‘According to expert evidence presented at the Senate inquiry, it is likely none of these so-called “affordable” homes will be affordable to low- or even middle-income renters’.
Meanwhile, the ‘Help to Buy’ bill aims to make home ownership more accessible for low- and middle-income Australians, yet that scheme will be offered to just 10,000 eligible homebuyers across the nation every year, according to the www.conversation.com.au.
PM Albanese says he will reintroduce Labor’s ‘Help to Buy’ legislation in October, leaving open the possibility of a double dissolution election.
Negotiations for Labor’s $10B Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) saw the Greens pressure Labor into injecting another $3B into the fund. Mrs Elliot has previously told The Echo she does not agree that was a benefit for the electorate, and instead says those HAFF delays were costly.
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