Up to 1200 more social and affordable homes will be delivered for Queenslanders, but there are fears it doesn’t scratch the surface of the state’s crippling housing crisis.  

It’s part of a new partnership between the Brisbane Housing Company and the Queensland Investment Corporation.

But more than 50,000 people are waiting to access social housing in the Sunshine State.

CEO of the Queensland Council of Social Services, Aimee McVeigh, says the partnership between the two organisations was a positive one.

“The thing is, this was money that was promised last year,” she told Sofie Formica.

“The $1 billion housing investment fund was was set up in last year’s budget … it was part of the $2.9 billion that was already committed last year, what we are seeing here is the beginning of the implementation of that funding.”

There were virtually no homes available in the rental market, she said.

Regularly they were hearing awful families living in cars, motels, tents or sleeping on verandahs.

Ms McVeigh said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who grew up in social housing, is living proof of what happens when children are provided a roof over their heads.

“The reality is though if he were a child in the same circumstances today, he’d be more likely to be living in a tent or a car.”

She said the problem will continue to escalate if decisive action isn’t taken.

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