{"id":36906,"date":"2026-01-15T14:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36906"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:07:12","slug":"a-landlords-market-where-renters-pay-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/a-landlords-market-where-renters-pay-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A landlord\u2019s market\u2019 where renters pay the price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New quarterly data<\/a> today shows ‘a landlord’s market\u2019 where rents are yet again at record highs in nearly every capital city in Australia, with Sydney topping the list at $800 a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With rental vacancy rates<\/a> at record lows, Labor\u2019s policies are incentivising wealthy property investors which push property prices up further, and rents are skyrocketing as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greens say rather than fueling the housing crisis, Labor should come up with policies that actually deliver affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens spokesperson for finance, housing and homelessness Senator Barbara Pocock:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRecord high rents across the country are further proof of a housing crisis out of control. People on low and middle incomes can\u2019t afford to live where they want to or anywhere near where they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRenters are literally paying the price for a landlord’s market. While renters reach the limits of what they can pay, the Government gives tax breaks to wealthy property investors. How is that fair?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a system stacked against younger generations and people who haven\u2019t won the intergenerational housing lottery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor decades, successive governments have turbocharged house prices and driven up rents, putting billions of dollars in the pockets of property investors, property developers and the banks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Government\u2019s $181 billion tax breaks for wealthy investors – via the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing – are locking out first home buyers and forcing rents to skyrocket. They have failed to build public housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis government needs to treat housing as a human right instead of giving billions of tax breaks to wealthy property investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor needs to introduce rent caps and invest directly into building good quality homes and renting them to people who need them at prices they can actually afford.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New quarterly data today shows ‘a landlord’s market\u2019 where rents are yet again at record highs in nearly every capital city in Australia, with Sydney topping the list at $800 a week. With rental vacancy rates at record lows, Labor\u2019s policies are incentivising wealthy property investors which push property prices up further, and rents are skyrocketing as a … Continue reading “\u2018A landlord\u2019s market\u2019 where renters pay the price”<\/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-36906","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\/36906","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=36906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36907,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36906\/revisions\/36907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}