Greens’ $5.9b public housing election promise met with resistance

“And the explanation for that’s fairly easy: the federal government owns land, to allow them to construct on their very own land, which reduces the general housing value. However secondly, whether or not they’re the contractor or whether or not they’re the undertaking supervisor, they’ll reduce out a few of the revenue necessity that builders have … the state would not want the revenue to allow them to use that as a saving,” he mentioned.