There are 36,000 empty homes listed on Airbnb in Sydney and Melbourne alone, according to activists.
As various state and federal politicians tweak, tinker and generally nibble round the edges of the housing shortage, there is an elephant in the room – or, more vividly, the back seat of the car.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was raised in social housing.journalist Amy Remeikis commented that if the prime minister’s mother was trying to work through the social housing system as it is now, he might well have been sleeping in a car.
It’s hard to tell if Australian politicians were duped by the “sharing” industry or they knew perfectly well that the income garnered from tourists would come at the cost of long-term tenants.true facts and figures about holiday lets and their effects on the broader community According to activists InsideAirbnb, there are now 36,000 empty homes listed on Airbnb in Sydney and Melbourne alone. And there are other platforms such as Stayz that do not attract the same level of scrutiny.If you think those homes might be better used to accommodate families who are living in tents and cars, it will only get worse when the tourists return and more tenants are evicted to make way for them.
But if you accept that short-term holiday lets push up rents and drive out tenants with the more professionally run properties making the biggest profits, isn’t this the perfect time to retire the “sharing” myth?Australia has one of the least regulated short-term letting sectors in the world. So, would driving some holiday lets back into the residential market be such a bad thing?
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