More than one year on from the election of the Minns Labor Government renters across NSW have been let down by the Government\u2019s failure to implement key rental reforms.
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\u201cWe are in the midst of Labor\u2019s cost of living crisis with renters struggling every day paying sky high rents,\u201d Shadow Minister for Fair Trading Tim James said.
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\u201cOver Labor\u2019s year in power, rents in Greater Sydney have increased by more than 13%. The proportion of rental housing accessible to a median income earner in NSW has fallen from 35% in 2022-23 to 28% in 2023-24. By contrast, the Liberal and Nationals Government achieved a record high of 48% in 2020-21.\u201d
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\u201cThe Minns Government has shown little urgency to ease the pressures on households, and has little to show for renters after a year in power despite all of its rhetoric before the election.\u201d
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\u201cThe Government continues to drag its feet on progressing key planks of agreed rental reform including prohibiting no grounds eviction, establishing a portable rental bond scheme, as well as making it easier to have pets in rentals.\u201d
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\u201cThe only thing it has done so far is abandon its promise to end secret rent bidding in favour of undefined transparency measures.\u201d
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\u201cWe\u2019ve seen no outcomes yet on any of these policies.\u201d
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\u201cThe government appears unable or unwilling to make key decisions about how these schemes will be run.\u201d
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\u201cThe NSW Rental Commissioner was meant to give renters a voice but has so far delivered little real action due to being under-resourced and under-funded.\u201d
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\u201cWith Parliament sitting next week, the Government needs to get on with delivering for renters. Every second the Minns government continues to delay, NSW renters pay the price,\u201d Mr James concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than one year on from the election of the Minns Labor Government renters across NSW have been let down by the Government\u2019s failure to implement key rental reforms.\u00a0\u201cWe are in the midst of Labor\u2019s cost of living crisis with renters struggling every day paying sky high rents,\u201d Shadow Minister for Fair Trading Tim James … Continue reading “As rents soar, Minns Labor Government has failed renters”<\/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-26428","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\/26428","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=26428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26429,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26428\/revisions\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}