$10 billion housing fund may be killed off before a brick is laid
Labor's investment vehicle to raise funds for social and affordable housing projects, HAFF, was a signature election promise but it is in peril unless the government can get The Greens to support it.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had made the $10 billion housing fund a key election promise but its fate hangs in the balance. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
The federal government’s signature $10 billion housing fund may be killed off before a brick is laid.
A day after The Greens forced voting in the Senate on Labor’s key Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) legislation to be pushed back to 16 October, Housing Minister Julie Collins speculated that the government may not reintroduce the bill.
As well as being a devastating blow to efforts to bolster the nation’s chronic shortage of housing
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