Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Storer will also sponsor the motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator Storer, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) will soon start to phase out this year after the Abbott Government made the decision to discontinue it in 2014,

  (ii) hundreds of dwellings will be dropping off the scheme in a matter of months, yet there has been no replacement scheme or extension to the NRAS announced by the Government, and

  (iii) many vulnerable people will be left unable to access affordable housing and could face homelessness; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to urgently commit to a replacement scheme or an extension of the NRAS.

I seek leave to make a short statement.