As promised in the forward sizzle, Albanese and Labor are in Melbourne, where they are taking housing.

Here is the main message:

Under Labor, there will be more homes and smaller deposits. Under Peter Dutton, there’ll be fewer homes and higher prices. I want to help first-home buyers into home ownership, and particularly young Australians into home ownership. But I’m also a big supporter of social housing. And one of the things we did was to have a $2 billion social housing accelerator. The coalition pretend that houses aren’t being built. You’re here. This was one home. It’s been converted into three 1-bedroom dwellings with energy efficiency that will be as cheap to run as is possible, using everything from renewable energy to water-saving devices to proper insulation, making sure that these places, as well, are adaptable housing so that people can age in place in housing that is so important and fit for purpose.

This is a really important initiative that we have – just part of our $43 billion Homes for Australia plan. It’s one I’m proud of. It’s one we’ll continue to roll out over coming years. We want more people into social housing.

We want more people into private rentals through our build-to-rent scheme. We want more people to be able to own their own home through Help to Buy and through the initiatives that we announced on Sunday. This will make an enormous difference. It’s already making an enormous difference.

Not just here in Victoria, but I’ve been in homes right throughout the country that have been built through the social housing accelerator. In many cases, homes that were left without people living in them, getting them renovated, getting homes fit for purpose – there’s similar programs like this. I’ve been to Riverwood in New South Wales, I’ve been to South Brisbane in Queensland, I’ve been to Adelaide as well, in homes just like this, making a difference to building up supply, which of course is the key.

And the key difference here between the policies announced on Sunday is that we have a plan for supply as well as a supply for demand. The coalition just have a demand-side issue, which will do nothing to address supply, which we know is a precondition for moving forward in the direction that Australians want, allowing more people to get a roof over their head because that gives them security in life.