Greens leader Adam Bandt wants the federal government to force the states to deliver a two-year rent freeze to protect tenants.
in March but could not strike a deal with the Greens on the $10 billion investment fund, which is supposed to generate income that would pay for 20,000 social housing properties and 10,000 affordable homes over five years.
States would only be able to access the expanded housing fund if they agreed to freeze rents for two years.Ahead of Friday’s national cabinet meeting, Bandt will argue that “renters are in crisis across the country, and the PM must show leadership by putting a rent freeze on the national cabinet agenda and pushing the states to take action.
“The Victorian, South Australian, Tasmanian and ACT governments all froze rent increases during the pandemic. Many state governments already limit rent rises to once a year, and if they simply extended that to two years, there would be a two-year rent freeze.“It is unacceptable and irresponsible for the prime minister to throw his hands up and put the Greens’ rent freeze proposal in the too-hard basket when Labor holds almost every seat around the national cabinet table.
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