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Housing minister defends government’s plans for 1.2m homes, says crisis ‘very hard problem to solve’
The housing minister, Clare O’Neil, is speaking about the government’s pledge to build 1.2m new homes in Australia by 2029. She said just 2,000 social and affordable homes have been built of a five-year target of 55,000. But she defended questions on Radio National if the government would meet those targets, saying they were part of a “national aspiration” worth pushing towards.
Our housing crisis has been cooking for 40 years because it is a very hard problem to solve.
I’m doing every single thing that I can as housing minister federally to make sure that we meet the target or get as close to it as we can. The target will depend on lots of different things … It will depend on what state governments do. It will depend on what interest rates look like.
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Author : Nick Visser
Publish date : 2025-08-07 21:54:00
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