Comment on Renters continue to face a tight rental market and rising costs, according to new report

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We’ve covered this a number of times but you’ve flatly refused to provide any substantiation of your position: the reason there isn’t more supply is because people are leaving houses empty that could be rented out.

  Additionally, there are no laws about massively increasing rent because the rest of the market also conveniently decides to do so (see the 20-30% rises multiple years in a row, even though mortgage costs didn’t go up enough to justify such an increase).

  Also see massive under-investment in public housing, which would reduce demand if we did invest in it.

  This housing crisis is entirely of our own making, and we can fix it.

  Mark my words, only stopping immigration will not solve this problem.

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