Rental crisis ‘a blind spot’ for politicians in cost of living campaign | rachelclun
The rental crisis engulfing the country should be a wake-up call for both major parties as they fight the election campaign on cost of living issues, welfare support groups say, as data shows there are almost no affordable rentals across Australia.
“Australia’s housing crisis has reached fever pitch. No part of the country has been spared. Rents are shooting up in towns and regions, and our cities have never been more expensive,” she said. “There is no available, affordable stock for anyone on Commonwealth assistance,” he said. “It’s been a blind spot politically out of Canberra for a good decade, they have been asleep at the wheel on housing policy.”
He said that’s why Labor has the $10 billion Australian housing future fund to build more affordable housing for people including frontline workers.
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