Anthony Albanese will be hoping the personal experiences of young homebuyers will help break a long-running deadlock on housing, as he launches a high-risk attempt to blame the Greens for the lack of action on the housing crisis.

The prime minister is putting pressure on the Coalition and Greens to pass two signature housing reforms during a visit to Sydney, where he will meet a homeowner who used a government program to enter the market.

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Labor’s schemes before the Senate – Help to Buy and Build to Rent – have been criticised that they would not make housing affordable.

But Albanese said boosting supply levels was the best way to solve affordability issues.

“When I was young, more than two-thirds of Australians in their early 30s could buy their own home, now it’s less than half. The outlook is even worse for young Australians on low and middle incomes,” he said.

But as our chief political correspondent David Crowe writes, Labor’s challenge to the Greens to end the Senate blockade on the housing policy marks the launch of a high-risk attempt to target the minor party at the next election if the policy is stalled in parliament. He reports:

The move will force a decision on a Labor election promise to offer federal funds to people who cannot afford to buy a home, in a sign of the government’s confidence that voters will mark down the Greens for obstructing the scheme.

Albanese moved on Monday to turn the impasse into an election test for the Greens and the Coalition, arguing that both parties were delaying help for Australians on housing.”

AAP with David Crowe