Labor’s build-to-rent bill knocked back in Senate as Coalition and Greens team up

The federal housing minister, Julie Collins, said the Coalition and the Greens ‘have decided to stand in the way of more help for renters by holding up our build-to-rent legislation’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Greens and the Coalition have combined to delay Labor’s bill to encourage build-to-rent investments, prompting the Albanese government to accuse them of forming an “anti-housing alliance”.

On Thursday the Greens revealed new demands for 100% of build-to-rent properties to be affordable after they voted with the opposition to split tax changes out of a government Treasury bill.