Hospitality vendors in WA's South West say a chronic shortage of staff accommodation is crippling their businesses — and new government initiatives to try to solve the problem are inadequate.
This is like paying scammers to “pretty please don’t scam so much”. Hear me out; why don’t we implement policies to curb or outright remove the option to host short term rentals. You know, govern them.
Its possibly because the WA government doesn’t want a community backlash that the opposition can leverage their political attacks on.
It seems as soon as a home owner, or business owner, (so a large portion of the public) can claim an economic loss due to a governments decisions, it becomes an attack vector to be exploited. No matter how reasonable the decision was.
This is like paying scammers to “pretty please don’t scam so much”. Hear me out; why don’t we implement policies to curb or outright remove the option to host short term rentals. You know, govern them.
Its possibly because the WA government doesn’t want a community backlash that the opposition can leverage their political attacks on.
It seems as soon as a home owner, or business owner, (so a large portion of the public) can claim an economic loss due to a governments decisions, it becomes an attack vector to be exploited. No matter how reasonable the decision was.