We’ve secured billions in additional and immediate funding for housing in parliament. Now we’re focused on making sure everyone has a safe, secure, and affordable home.
More Greens will keep Dutton's Liberals out and put renters and first-home buyers ahead of wealthy property investors.
Australia is in a housing affordability crisis. Millions of people are locked out of the housing market, renters are struggling with high rents, and the waitlist for social housing has completely blown out.
Meanwhile, many parents are worried about how their children will afford a home and young families are struggling to find affordable suburbs to settle down in. Many more just can’t find a place they can afford in a suburb they want to live in.
People wait for over a decade to access public housing in some parts of Australia, while hundreds of thousands of people seek help from homelessness services every year.
Women, especially older women, have been the fastest growing group of people experiencing homelessness.
Labor and the Liberals have put the interests of banks, property developers and wealthy investors ahead of everyday people.
The Greens have already:
- Locked in an extra $3 billion to build more public and community housing
- Made sure new built-to-rent apartments offer long-term leases to renters
- Delivered an extra $500 million to upgrade public and social housing with solar and batteries
Next we will:
- Cap rent increases: End unlimited rent increases with a rent freeze and long-term rent caps.
- Bring down mortgages: Regulate the banks to deliver fairer, lower mortgages.
- Phase out tax handouts: Scrap the tax handouts to wealthy property investors with more than two properties, including negative gearing (it’s stopping renters buying their first home).
- Build public & affordable homes: A government-owned developer to build good quality homes sold and rented at a price you can afford.
- Create a Renters Protection Authority: to enforce renters’ rights.