Housing Australia’s 11th Hour Scramble a Farce

To save themselves from humiliation at Senate Estimates, Labor has made a bizarre last-minute announcement about their Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) boondoggle.

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The HAFF has been law for 18 months now. It is inconceivable that it would take so long to roll out this scheme.

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Labor is now claiming the HAFF has built a few hundred houses. This is despite Senator Wong informing the Senate two weeks ago the HAFF hadn’t completed a single house. 

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Ms Wong told the Senate, “

that 24,000 homes are in the pipeline through direct Commonwealth investment, including 13,700 under round 1 of the HAFF

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The HAFF tender process has been a shambles and shrouded in secrecy with non-disclosure agreements.

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With an election imminent, the Albanese Labor Government is deflecting from the fact that new housing completions have collapsed under their watch. 

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Labor has created a housing nightmare. They’ve built bureaucracy. Not houses. Maybe a few but who really knows?

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Today’s announcement doesn’t alter the fact that the HAFF is hopeless. 

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