Julie Collins 2022

The Government will work with states and territories to extend the deadline to submit supporting documentation for existing HomeBuilder applicants who have been affected by supply constraints and construction industry delays.

DANNY SUTTON:

PATRICIA KARVELAS:

Housing Minister Julie Collins joins me now. Minister, welcome.

JULIE COLLINS:

You’re welcome, thank you, Patricia.

KARVELAS:

The Albanese Government will deliver a $67.5 million boost to homelessness funding to states and territories over the next year, to help address the serious challenges revealed in the latest Census data.

The Government understands the importance of our country’s homelessness services to addressing these challenges, which is why we are supporting them with this new funding.

GREG JENNETT:

Today’s release of the latest Census data on homelessness underscores the critical importance of all governments working together to address this problem.

Minister for Homelessness, Julie Collins, said too many Australians don’t have a safe place to call home.

I am delighted to join you today at the launch of an ESG Reporting Standard for Australian Community Housing.

As you know our nation faces significant challenges to provide safe, secure and affordable housing for more Australians:

JULIE COLLINS:

The construction of three social and affordable apartment housing projects is on track to soon deliver more than 200 homes in metropolitan Melbourne.

The homes will be built in Brighton East, St Kilda and Balaclava as a result of a funding partnership between the Andrews Labor Government and the Albanese Labor Government.

Building a home involves the work of a lot of different professions.

Architects, drafts people, surveyors, carpenters, plumbers, sparkies and other tradies to name a few.

Take out one of these skilled professions and the house just won’t get built.

I think of this often in my job as the federal Minister for Housing and Homelessness.