Rebecca Vassarotti - ACT Greens Member for Kurrajong

The two old parties have finally woken up to the crisis, but they're hand-balling the solution to the same developers that created the housing crisis in the first place, and not placing enough emphasis on the responsibility of governments to fix housing affordability. [...] solve the housing crisis is to provide Much of the recent renewal of the ACT’s enough affordable housing for everyone public housing has been financed by - and the most secure kind of affordable selling older public homes, meaning the housing is public housing. [...] The ACT Greens will establish a public authority to take responsibility as the In the process, the Government will public developer and builder of an create hundreds of skilled construction ambitious expansion of ACT public apprenticeships, training opportunities housing. [...] The ‘more public homes’ policy aims to address a declining proportion of public housing compared to all housing in the ACT, putting the trajectory on a path to 10% of ACT dwellings, a level not seen since the 1990s. [...] 10,000 MORE PUBLIC HOMES | ACT GREENS 7 The program will put the ACT on track to return the ratio of public housing towards 10%, last seen in the 1990s, and improve the quality of life for the thousands of Canberrans who struggle with no housing or unaffordable rentals.