{"id":3747,"date":"2019-09-25T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T08:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2019-09-25T08:11:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T08:11:46","slug":"greens-call-for-more-support-for-low-income-renters-following-shocking-productivity-commission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/25\/greens-call-for-more-support-for-low-income-renters-following-shocking-productivity-commission-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens call for more support for low income renters following shocking Productivity Commission report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Spokesperson for Housing, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reacted to a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aph.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1f20735217fb7df5078bb8602&amp;id=a21af7ecad&amp;e=ae5ef1ba44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Productivity Commission report<\/a>\u00a0showing that two thirds of low income renters spend more than 30% of their income on rent, the commonly used benchmark for identifying rental stress. Half of those remain \u2018stuck\u2019 in stress four years on.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi has called for the Federal Government to review and increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cWhen even the Productivity Commission concludes that rent assistance hasn\u2019t kept up with rising rents, you know we have a problem. The Federal Government needs to step in and commit to increasing rent assistance.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is unacceptable that so many people already on low incomes are falling into financial stress just to put a roof over their head. Everyone has the right to a safe, secure and permanent home.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know the situation is getting worse. We need urgent interventions, coupled with significant financial resources and reform of the housing system, or more and more people will be without a home.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Productivity Commission has also pointed out wide disparities around the country in conditions for renters. That\u2019s why the Greens have consistently called for a national standard to protect renters\u201d,\u00a0she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Spokesperson for Housing, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reacted to a new\u00a0Productivity Commission report\u00a0showing that two thirds of low income renters spend more than 30% of their income on rent, the commonly used benchmark for identifying rental stress. Half of those remain \u2018stuck\u2019 in stress four years on. Senator Faruqi has called for the Federal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/25\/greens-call-for-more-support-for-low-income-renters-following-shocking-productivity-commission-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens call for more support for low income renters following shocking Productivity Commission report&#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-3747","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\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}