I take note of the intergenerational housing inequity report. I know from my own lived experience that housing insecurity can happen to anyone at any time, even when they're not expecting it. When I was in high school, my family and I were evicted by a big bank because we couldn't meet the full mortgage repayments, and—wait for it—that eviction was on 48 hours notice. The Greens have a policy that the big banks should provide low-rate, discount mortgages. If that policy were around when I was in high school, my family would not have been evicted from our home. That should not have occurred. Whether they are a homeowner with a mortgage at a big bank or a tenant in public or private housing, people deserve safe, secure and affordable housing.

In my home state of Tasmania, 30 per cent of households are renters. According to Anglicare, in the last year, only 770 properties were listed for rent, half the number that was available a decade ago. How many of the people who accommodated any of those 770 houses do you think were people living on JobSeeker, a disability support pension or youth allowance? I'll tell you: none. Nearly half of Tasmanians renting from a private landlord are spending more than 30 per cent of their income on housing costs, and the market is shrinking and rents are ever-increasing.

A renter I know in Tasmania has had his rent increase by 25 per cent over the last three years, but there have been no improvements by the landlord to the home in which he lives. A lady I spoke to when doorknocking at Devonport in Tasmania recently was paying $400 a week in rent for a house with broken floorboards, electrical faults and no heating. After she paid the rent, living in an environment like that, she had $200 left a week. For that $200 a week, she fed her children. And what about her? She went without dinner so she could afford to put food on her children's plates. We urgently need to recognise that housing is a human right, expand public and community housing and cap annual rent increases. We need to create a housing system that works for everyone, not a system, like we have now, that only works for property investors and the big banks.