MP says most of Stockton Centre too 'derelict' for crisis housing

Kate Washington at a media conference last year calling on the government to use the Stockton Centre for crisis accommodation. Picture by Simone De Peak

Port Stephens MP Kate Washington says using the nurses quarters at the disused Stockton Centre for crisis housing is "impossible" after touring the site on Friday.

Ms Washington, then shadow housing minister Rose Jackson, Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp and emergency housing providers called last year for the former Coalition government to use two defunct disability centres at Stockton and Tomaree to help ease the Hunter's homelessness crisis.