Proposal for motels to house homeless people to be brought to Queensland summit

Converting hotels and motels for use as crisis accommodation will be suggested at Queensland’s affordable housing summit. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

Hotels and motels would be repurposed to house homeless people under a proposal to be tabled at Queensland’s affordable housing summit on Thursday.

The proposal is among a string of ideas to be floated for urgent relief for the tens of thousands of people who are on the state’s social housing waiting list, couch surfing or sleeping in cars or on the streets.