Make Housing Affordable
Everyone should have the right to a safe, secure and affordable home.
But NSW is in a housing emergency. People are struggling with skyrocketing rents, unfair evictions, and a chronic lack of public, social, and affordable housing.
Years of the state government's unfair tax breaks to big developers and wealthy investors has created a housing system that puts profit before people's right to a home.
The Greens have a plan to make housing affordable, safe and secure for everyone. I'm advocating to make unlimited rent increases illegal, crack down on short-term holiday lets, end unfair no grounds evictions and build enough public and affordable housing so no one is homeless.
In a minority Labor government, the Greens have more power than ever before to push for common-sense solutions to the housing crisis. We want to:
- Cut Rents and Stop Unfair Evictions
- Massively Invest in Affordable Housing
- Create 100,000 new homes
- Rescue Regional Housing
- Put housing first and end homelessness
- Ensure homes for community, not short term holiday letting
- Tackle economic inequality and deliver affordable housing
Despite more people renting than ever, renting has become more expensive, more stressful, and more insecure than ever before.
The Greens want to fix the power imbalance that allows dodgy landlords to get away with a lack of maintenance, unchecked rent increases, and unfair evictions. Renting should be a genuine, secure, and affordable option for lifelong renters who have been locked out of private home ownership.
And I'm advocating for investment in massive development of new public, social and affordable homes so that the 100,000 people in NSW who are stuck on the public housing waiting list will have a home they can afford without having to wait ten years for it.
We also need to make sure we aren't giving the keys of the housing kingdom to big developers, who will sell of houses at unaffordable rates with no regard for our environment or the needs of communities.
The Greens believe that housing is a basic right. It's time to make big changes so that everyone has a home that’s affordable and safe and secure.