The South Australian Greens would push to build 20,000 public homes over the next four years, clear out a public housing maintenance backlog, and introduce a new Commissioner to protect tenant rights, under new pre-election policy announced today.

SA Greens leader Robert Simms told InDaily the cost of the policy would be about $6.7 billion and that the “private market isn’t delivering the housing that we need”.

“Now really is the time for the government to step up and assume that responsibility,” Simms said.

“If you look at the state under Premier [Thomas] Playford, the SA Housing Trust was one of the biggest developers in the state and we’ve seen the long-term benefits that flowed from that.

“We’re in the middle of a housing emergency and so we need a crisis-level response.”

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