Rent regulations are no silver bullet, but they would help make renting fairer
- Written by Alistair Sisson, Macquarie University Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
Virtually every week brings news of rising rents or a story of still more renters forced out of their homes by unmanageable rent increases.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics says rents climbed 6.6% in the year to October.
If you’re signing a new rent agreement the situation is worse, with landlords charging on average 8.6% more than they...
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