{"id":20796,"date":"2023-03-23T04:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T04:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=20796"},"modified":"2023-03-23T04:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T04:52:18","slug":"rental-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/rental-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"RENTAL COMMISSIONER\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Minns Labor Government will make renting in New South Wales fairer and more affordable by establishing a&nbsp;RentalCommissioner.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>A NSW&nbsp;Rental&nbsp;Commissioner&nbsp;will be an advocate and voice for renters by working closely with government, consumer affairs, stakeholders and renters to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lead consultation and drafting of legislation to introduce reasons for eviction;<\/li><li>Implement Labor&#8217;s portable bonds scheme;<\/li><li>Oversee a ban on secret rent bidding;<\/li><li>Identify barriers to increasing housing supply for renting;<\/li><li>Identify practices and gaps that erode the rights of renters;<\/li><li>Identify options for longer term agreements, giving security and certainty to both renters and owners;<\/li><li>Initiatives including educational resources for renters and owners to increase knowledge of their rights\u2019<\/li><li>Gather data on renting and survey renters to help inform future policy making; and<\/li><li>Identify ways for renters to more easily access energy efficiency initiatives.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minns Labor Government will make renting in New South Wales fairer and more affordable by establishing a&nbsp;RentalCommissioner.&nbsp;&nbsp;A NSW&nbsp;Rental&nbsp;Commissioner&nbsp;will be an advocate and voice for renters by working closely with government, consumer affairs, stakeholders and renters to: Lead consultation and drafting of legislation to introduce reasons for eviction; Implement Labor&#8217;s portable bonds scheme; Oversee a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/rental-commissioner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RENTAL COMMISSIONER\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20797,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796\/revisions\/20797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}