It's a view shared by MP Helen Hayes, chair of the housing taskforce inquiry established to look into new sources of housing: "If Berliners can build one in six homes this way, then Londoners and Mancunians can too".
To achieve this, a family violence housing implementation taskforce comprising senior representatives from the public and commercial housing sectors as well as family violence specialists should be established within a year, the report says.
Hockey thought so too in April, when he emerged from a meeting with state treasurers to announce a new "housing affordability taskforce".
Hockey said he had already announced a housing affordability taskforce headed by the Victorian Labor treasurer, Tim Pallas, and the federal government was working with the states to increase the housing supply.
Hammond told the house on Tuesday that the taskforce had "added greatly to the UK's understanding of the ever-more complex and contrived structures that are being developed to mask offshore tax evasion and economic crime".
To learn more, visit Taskforce at home here.
Housing authorities play a critical role in the taskforce.
The night the council shut it down, there were 23 people living in the house, but Roz Spencer, who coordinates Lewisham's Rogue Landlord Taskforce, says an inspection the previous year estimated there were 40 residents.
Low-risk areas of the country may not have a dedicated anti-mosquito taskforce, but those that do may be able to make house calls to assess your property's risk.
Hockey says the government is "doing everything we can to help make housing more affordable for new entrants" and points to the state taskforce set up in April.
On 30 April, the housing minister, Grant Shapps, announced that the government was creating a nationwide "beds in sheds" taskforce, to identify the thousands of sheds and outbuildings being illegally rented out, often to illegal migrants.
