When
Why
We've just been handed down a Federal Budget that has once again tinkered around the edges. We all know Australia is in a housing crisis. Rents are unaffordable. Homelessness is rising. Public housing waitlists stretch decades. And every year, the federal government hands $20 billion in tax breaks to investors through negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount at the direct expense of the people who need housing most. As global economic uncertainty stretches so many of us well past breaking point, the case for tax reform has never been stronger or more urgent.
At the same time, the NSW Government has opened up a public consultation into Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for rental homes. While we pay record rents and skyrocketing energy bills, there is no legislative guarantee that our homes are safe in extreme heat. 331, 750 households are in energy debt. This is our short window of opportunity to legislate some bare minimum standards for renters.
Join House You and Sweltering Cities to have a conversation about the need for public housing, and make a submission to this public consultation to win safer and more affordable homes across the state.
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