It is estimated that 90 per cent of advertised rental listings in the popular NSW tourist area and mountain region west of Sydney are short-term accommodation.
Julie Nelson stares at the dozen rental homes advertised in the window of a real estate agency in the Blue Mountains – and can't afford any of them.
"We have roughly 100 long-term rentals available in the Blue Mountains right now, but we have 1,000 Airbnb available," Mayor Mark Greenhill said. "New South Wales Government data shows there are five times more long-term rentals than short-term rentals across the Blue Mountains," a spokesperson for Airbnb said in a statement.
"We don't have a housing supply problem, we have a housing availability problem," Genevieve Murray, co-organiser of the protest and an academic on city, community and regional planning, said.'It's not fair for locals'Public feedback recently closed on a discussion paper exploring a range of measures that could unlock housing supply and improve affordability.
Rose Jackson says the state government received "hundreds of submissions and thousands of survey responses" regarding its review on short-term rental accommodation.Among the measures being considered is a tax paid by guests when they're making a booking on sites including Airbnb and Stayz.how long a property could be listed as a short term rental
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