Clare O’Neil promises ‘profound and transformative’ investment to ease housing crisis

Minister for housing Clare O’Neil says she wants to ‘help renters who are a group of people I am intensely concerned about’. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The new housing and homelessness minister, Clare O’Neil, is “intensely concerned” about the plight of renters and has promised “profound and transformative” investment to alleviate the housing crisis.

But with implementation of Labor’s existing $32bn of commitments a priority, O’Neil is offering more continuity than change in her new portfolio, which she inherited from Julie Collins in the July reshuffle.