1,000 signatures reached
To: Australian Federal Government
Homes For All
Right now if you’re on a minimum wage, you can’t afford to rent 99.3% of rental properties. 0% are affordable for someone on JobSeeker or Youth Allowance – and only 0.3% are affordable to a person on the Age Pension.
An essential worker – someone working in health, education, construction or emergency services – can afford to rent only 3% of rental listings.
That is clearly, clearly wrong.
We need the Government to get serious on housing.
Why is this important?
All the evidence from experts is clear. We need to:
- Massively increase the supply of housing;
- Boost social housing;
- Scale back negative gearing and reassess tax breaks for wealthy landlords;
- Develop nationally consistent rental laws that set consistent standards and protect renters' rights; and
- Allocate housing for key workers.
Home ownership is currently out of reach for most Australians – but that doesn’t need to be the case.