Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, chair of the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, addresses the National Press Club. Follow live.
The chair of Australia's National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, will address the National Press Club .
In May, its first State of the Housing System report found the national 1.2 million housing target was unlikely to be met in its current timeframe.The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council handed down its first State of the Housing System report to the federal government earlier this year.
The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council described Australia's housing market as inequitable, unaffordable and undersupplied."There are 170,000 on wait lists for public housing, another 122,000 people experiencing homelessness, and very significant housing stress particularly for vulnerable cohorts of the community is simply unacceptable for a country with the resources of Australia," Ms Lloyd-Hurwitz said.
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