Experts challenge Alan Kelly's claim housing action would breach the Constitution

Environment Minister Alan Kelly is facing fresh calls to publish the legal advice he says prevented him from adopting tough measures on the housing crisis, after experts challenged his claim such action would breach the Constitution.

Mr Kelly told a forum on housing and homelessness last month he had wanted to do more to boost social housing and protect renters during his term in office but could not.

“I was repeatedly blocked from making provision for what I believed was the common good by the strength by which property rights are protected under Article 43 of the Constitution,” he said.