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.
I appreciate your response and your explanation, but I disagree. The dispersal of responsibility from a tenant to a private landlord has no advantage over public housing. Tenants in the current market are afraid of rocking the boat because landlords are en masse holding them over a barrel. I like your theory that dispersing the responsibility from the state to market forces will help with regulation, but fortunately, we don’t need to hypothesise because, as you noted, we already live in a private market and can see how shit regulation is, and how shit it has been for a very long time.
This incentive you mention doesn’t seem to be enacting any real change with regulation. Sure, over the past few months, the state governments across Australia have enacted ‘progressive overhauls’ on tenant rights, but almost universally, these overhauls are ignoring the actual issues and are very clearly designed to just look like they’re doing something. The Federal response is even worse. On one hand, they are forced to make miniscule concessions by the Greens to make their band-aid slightly less rubbish, and on the other, they exacerbate the pressures on the housing market by slashing taxes for the rich and boosting migration.
We’ve already tried regulation, and it has been an abysmal failure (to everyone except landlords).
There are systemic problems that we aren’t tackling in the housing system. I’m more willing to give plans a chance, but i won’t defend bad policy.
At the Press Club address during the week Malcolm Turnbull had some good advice for the Federal government and their HAFF. He said ~ ‘If it’s not working about as expected in two years, don’t be afraid to drop the policy.’ A good reminder of the sunk cost fallacy for them.
I appreciate your response and your explanation, but I disagree. The dispersal of responsibility from a tenant to a private landlord has no advantage over public housing. Tenants in the current market are afraid of rocking the boat because landlords are en masse holding them over a barrel. I like your theory that dispersing the responsibility from the state to market forces will help with regulation, but fortunately, we don’t need to hypothesise because, as you noted, we already live in a private market and can see how shit regulation is, and how shit it has been for a very long time.
This incentive you mention doesn’t seem to be enacting any real change with regulation. Sure, over the past few months, the state governments across Australia have enacted ‘progressive overhauls’ on tenant rights, but almost universally, these overhauls are ignoring the actual issues and are very clearly designed to just look like they’re doing something. The Federal response is even worse. On one hand, they are forced to make miniscule concessions by the Greens to make their band-aid slightly less rubbish, and on the other, they exacerbate the pressures on the housing market by slashing taxes for the rich and boosting migration.
We’ve already tried regulation, and it has been an abysmal failure (to everyone except landlords).
Fair enough, i had a go.
There are systemic problems that we aren’t tackling in the housing system. I’m more willing to give plans a chance, but i won’t defend bad policy.
At the Press Club address during the week Malcolm Turnbull had some good advice for the Federal government and their HAFF. He said ~ ‘If it’s not working about as expected in two years, don’t be afraid to drop the policy.’ A good reminder of the sunk cost fallacy for them.