{"id":31960,"date":"2025-03-20T07:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31960"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:50:22","slug":"labors-airbnb-levy-doesnt-go-far-enough-to-address-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/labors-airbnb-levy-doesnt-go-far-enough-to-address-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor\u2019s Airbnb levy doesn&#8217;t go far enough to address housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shane Rattenbury, Leader of the ACT Greens:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday&#8217;s legislation from Labor to regulate short-term rentals falls far short of addressing the housing crisis facing Canberrans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens went to the election calling for stronger action, with options such as limiting short-term rentals to the home you live in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government&#8217;s step today is insufficient. This small levy will fail to increase the number of affordable homes available to long-term renters, and it will fail to raise enough revenue to make a meaningful impact on the budget bottom line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn this housing crisis, the ACT Government needs to do everything it can to ensure every member of our community has access to a stable and affordable home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/actgreens\/\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Rattenbury, Leader of the ACT Greens: \u201cToday&#8217;s legislation from Labor to regulate short-term rentals falls far short of addressing the housing crisis facing Canberrans. \u201cThe Greens went to the election calling for stronger action, with options such as limiting short-term rentals to the home you live in.&nbsp; \u201cThe government&#8217;s step today is insufficient. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/labors-airbnb-levy-doesnt-go-far-enough-to-address-housing-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor\u2019s Airbnb levy doesn&#8217;t go far enough to address housing crisis&#8221;<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31960","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=31960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31961,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31960\/revisions\/31961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}