Labor’s Joy Burch has come out swinging against the housing policies of her partners in Government, the Greens, and their public housing policies:
The ACT Greens must explain to the Canberra community how they would pay for their call to increase public housing by 30 per cent in 10 years, which would cost more than $1.4 billion to achieve, ACT Minister for Housing Joy Burch said today.
Ms Burch said the ACT Greens must also identify what programs or services they would cut to meet the $18 million a year increase in recurrent spending that increasing stock levels by more than 3500 dwellings would entail to service and staff the additional properties.
“If the ACT Greens take a policy of increasing public housing stock by 30 per cent by 2021 to next year’s election, they need to be upfront with the community about the price tag attached to it, and identify how they would pay the $140 million-a-year in capital works required to fulfil it,” Ms Burch said.