RELAX RENTAL RULES
Member for Western Victoria, Bev McArthur used an adjournment debate to ask the Minister for Consumer Affairs about recently enacted rental rules.
New rental legislation was passed at the conclusion of the last Parliament by the Andrews government and came into effect this year.
The legislation removes the landlord’s control over their own properties in relation to tenants’ possession of pets and other internal changes, unless they proactively initiate costly and potentially lengthy cases at VCAT.
The vacancy rate in Warrnambool’s rental market is 1.2 per cent.
Mrs McArthur said “The government tries to paint landlords as wealthy property investors, house flippers and exploiters of lower income earning families. This is not the case.”
“These new rules will force many landlords to remove their property from the rental market.”
“How can we expect people to move to the regions, to lessen congestion in the city and to solve the country’s worker crisis, when landlord regulations are so burdensome that renting is virtually impossible and there is no incentive to invest in rental infrastructure?”
Mrs McArthur asked the Minister to “relax rental regulations to increase housing supply and to reduce the burden on landlords.”
18 March 2020