Exclusion of ‘thousands’ of people from waitlists masks Queensland’s housing crisis, Greens say

Queensland Greens MP Michael Berkman says issues with housing were driven by policies that treated it as a vehicle for wealth creation, rather than a human right. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Queensland Greens MP Michael Berkman says the scale of the state’s housing crisis is being masked by government measures that have excluded potentially “thousands” of applicants from joining social housing waitlists.

The Queensland parliament’s community support and services committee tabled a report on Friday afternoon, exploring housing models in Sydney and Melbourne.