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Federal Housing Minister, Julie Collins, has described the premature deaths of hundreds of homeless “completely unacceptable”.
The comments from Collins follows a Guardian Australia investigation of 627 homelessness deaths, which found a three-decade life expectancy gap and an average age of death of just 44.
Independent senator David Pocock said the investigation should trigger a doubling of the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) to boost social and affordable housing supply.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.