The party says it will spend $30m on construction of new housing in Nowra if it wins power in March
Housing has proved a vexed issue in NSW politics. Despite the Coalition government boasting of increases in overall social and public housing stock, wait times have been difficult to budge. Last week the latest social housing waitlists showed 51,031 people were waiting for dwellings in June 2022, a 15% increase on the year before.
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