{"id":8743,"date":"2020-10-15T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8743"},"modified":"2020-10-15T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:00:47","slug":"rental-report-reveals-tenants-covid-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/rental-report-reveals-tenants-covid-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental Report Reveals Tenants\u2019 Covid Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that AHURI\u2019s\u00a0<em>Renting in the time of COVID-19: understanding the impacts<\/em>\u00a0report,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahuri.edu.au\/research\/final-reports\/340\">released today<\/a>, has shone a light on the struggles of renters during the Covid-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cRenters are doing it very tough. The findings of this report confirm many of the fears we\u2019ve had for renters throughout this crisis. Many are earning less, living precariously, and being refused rent reductions.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government needs a plan to manage the immense rental stress people are experiencing, and which will worsen as the government continues to withdraw income support.<br \/>\n\u201cThere were no measures in last week\u2019s budget to address housing affordability or ensure that people will not have to go hungry to keep a roof over their heads.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government must reverse their cruel cuts to income support and invest in social housing to ensure accessible, affordable and sustainable homes for everyone who needs one.<br \/>\n\u201cI call on the National Cabinet to ensure eviction bans are in place so this public health and economic crisis doesn\u2019t leave more and more people in a homelessness crisis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that AHURI\u2019s\u00a0Renting in the time of COVID-19: understanding the impacts\u00a0report,\u00a0released today, has shone a light on the struggles of renters during the Covid-19 pandemic. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cRenters are doing it very tough. The findings of this report confirm many of the fears we\u2019ve had for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/rental-report-reveals-tenants-covid-struggle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rental Report Reveals Tenants\u2019 Covid Struggle&#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-8743","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\/8743","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=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}