Ms Rose Wall:

First, there are massive problems with emergency accommodation and access to emergency accommodation, as we can see in the numbers. If you can be sure that you can address one and address the other, that is something to think about.

The second thing is that it would move people, and potentially families, from long-term stable accommodation into short-term emergency accommodation. As the Senator rightly pointed out, that should only be for short-term emergency needs and there is a real question over whether that will happen.

In terms of other concerns about the proposed Bill, there is a question about families' entitlement to social housing support and whether each member of a household needs to meet the eligibility criteria proposed, including the habitual residence, lawful residence and reckonable residence requirements, and what kind of consequences there would be to introducing those barriers.