Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek and backbencher Josh Burns are among the inner-city targets of a Greens strategy at the next federal election that will try to turn renters into a new voting bloc.

Greens leader Adam Bandt will tell the party’s Victorian state conference on Saturday that its members should be proud of forcing the Albanese government to give up $3 billion in sweeteners in exchange for support for its housing plan.