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Andrew Brown

Independent MPs push to make housing a human right

Proposed laws would require the government to take a human rights approach to housing issues. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Access to housing would be recognised as a human right, with the federal government required to improve the country's supply, under a new proposal put to parliament.

Laws introduced on Monday as part of a joint push by independents David Pocock and Kylea Tink to solve the abiding crisis in housing would force governments to maintain a 10-year plan in line with mandated objectives.

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