Despite a rental crisis forcing people from their homes, housing minister and real estate lobby says limits are not needed
"We need to put some certainty in the market so that landlords know what they're able to increase rents to, and tenants can have some assurance about how far those increases are going to go."
Founder and pastor Dale Dowler said while the centre has been helping the needy for more than 20 years, the faces were a little different."There's a lot of assistance, from helping out with doing school lunches now, right through to full-blown family meals."Pastor Dowler said some areas — particularly where people were struggling — could benefit from a limit on rent increases so people are not forced out.
He said he understood renters were struggling — they call his agency in desperation, hoping for an affordable vacancy — but he said a limit on rental prices might only make things worse. He said landlords and investors were also "finding it very hard" with the rising cost of interest rates and repairs.Matt Diesel says most landlords are doing the right thing by their tenants.a recent report to parliament
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