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Australia's community housing organisations have emphasised the urgent need to pass the government's key housing legislation, which has failed to get the support of the Senate this week.

A rally attended by the CFMEU, Greens, and independent senators called for more ambitious commitments to social and affordable housing.

RBH has come under fire in a new report

The government had its first major legislative defeat since taking power as the Senate crossbench dashed its hopes of passing the affordable housing fund.

Tracey’s family have been on the Louth County Council housing list for four-and-a-half years. The local authority indicated it would buy it but then pulled out of the deal after discovering the property is just inside the Meath border.

The federal government's election commitment to fund 30,000 social and affordable homes over the next five years is yet to win enough support to pass, despite being due to be voted on in the Senate this week.

Homelessness is a reality experienced by one in 20 people living in the Northern Territory, and experts say the situation is worsening.

A funding boost will keep key homelessness services operating as stretched providers are being forced to turn vulnerable people away.

The federal government is pleading for crossbench support for its social housing fund, arguing rising homelessness requires urgent action.

The Greens and key crossbenchers are not convinced the Albanese government's social housing fund will do enough to ease Australia's worsening housing crisis.

Days before the publication of a new biography of federal Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek, the Nine newspapers carried an exclusive extract in the Good Weekend magazine, accompanied by a news article leading with Plibersek’s assertion that if she had stood for the party’s leadership after the 2019 election she…