Labor to give $2bn for social housing as Anthony Albanese lambasts Greens over Senate stalemate

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The federal government will give $2bn to state and territory governments within weeks for a social housing accelerator fund as part of a last-ditch effort to convince the Greens to not sink Labor’s signature housing policy in the Senate.

“This is new money – right now – for new social housing,” the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, will say while announcing the funding at Victorian Labor’s state conference on Saturday, according to an advance copy of his speech.

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