Homelessness Australia launches an ambitious plan to solve the housing crisis in Australia.
Ms Collins acknowledged that there was a shortfall in social housing.
"We will see an investment of 20,000 social housing properties from the current federal government over the term of this government but we really need to amp that up."Since June 2021, rents in Australia have increased 13.2 per cent, and in 2020-2021 over 100,000 people came to homeless services needing long-term housing.Arok Deng is due to give birth in four weeks and is desperate to find a home.
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