Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused the Greens of opposing a signature housing policy in order to boost social media followers and provide fodder for memes.

“They are the blockers, we are the builders,” Mr Albanese told a gathering of Labor faithful at the party’s national conference in Brisbane.

“The Greens political party aren’t interested in solving the problem at all, they just want the issue, the campaign, the social media content.

“They revel in the hypocrisy of voting against affordable housing in the parliament, protesting against it in their electorate and then making memes calling for action.”

The Greens have recommitted to backing renters, who the minor party says have been left behind by federal, state and territory governments despite planned reforms.

At a national cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Mr Albanese, premiers and chief ministers agreed to rental market reforms, including limiting rent increases to once a year, and creating minimum rental standards.

A nationwide policy will be developed requiring landlords to provide genuine, reasonable grounds for evictions.

The prime minister also offered a multibillion-dollar carrot to build new dwellings, announcing the construction of 1.2 million homes in the next five years, an increase of 200,000 dwellings from a previous target.

States and territories will be offered $15,000 for each new home they build from $3 billion in federal funding for 200,000 new dwellings.

A scheme to help 40,000 low-income families buy a home will start in 2024.

The Greens had opposed the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund and delayed debate on the bill until October, arguing a lack of support to renters.

Greens leader Adam Bandt said his party would discuss whether the national cabinet outcomes would secure its support for the fund.

But his initial response was the measures didn’t go far enough to address the rental crisis.

“We are in a fight to push Labor to deliver for renters, and we are not going to stop,” Mr Bandt told ABC Radio on Thursday.

“We have bent over backwards to negotiate with the government on this and to push for action on renters and to get the government to take the rental crisis seriously.”

Mr Bandt criticised the decision not to stop unlimited rent rises altogether, saying an increase once a year could still crush renters.

But Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said a Greens’ push to freeze and cap rents would reduce supply and further prolong the crisis.

“Don’t make it worse by being a populist,” Mr Andrews said.

“People will not build housing in a jurisdiction where potentially rents are frozen.

“They will go to another part of Australia where they are not frozen and they will build their apartments and their houses there.”

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton questioned whether the government would be able to deliver the promised increase in housing.

“The trouble is that figures don’t mean anything under this prime minister,” Mr Dutton told reporters.

“As we’ve seen in relation to other issues, he just doesn’t get across the detail, he makes the announcement but there’s no delivery.”

Independent MP Dai Le said despite all the talk, she didn’t know whether there would ever be extra houses built.

“We know the problem and we just need a solution,” she told Sky News.

– AAP