Labor plan to ease housing crisis will create just 3% of dwellings needed, Greens warn

‘By building only 3% of the social housing Australia needs, Labor is guaranteeing … millions will remain homeless, stuck for years on social housing waiting lists or in serious rental stress,’ Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather says. Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Labor’s five-year housing construction plan will deliver just 3% of the social housing units needed over the next decade, the Greens have warned.

That is the conclusion of parliamentary library research, which estimates Australia has a shortfall of 524,000 social housing dwellings this year, set to increase to 671,000 by 2032.