Tenants’ Union of NSW Policy Lead Leo Patterson Ross says the government should “step in” with the housing crisis by buying building companies which are going under to help meet demand and preserve jobs.
“We saw rents rising, particularly in regional areas … this is really an Australian-made problem, it preexists COVID-19 and it certainly is not driven by migration, the number of people looking for homes obviously impacts the type of experience people are going to have,” Mr Patterson Ross told Sky News Australia.
“This is more a problem on the supply side, we haven’t been ensuring that the industry continues to build to meet the demand, we always are going to have a growing population … we need to make sure the building industry is able to meet that need. “We’re seeing building companies go under, that means people are losing their jobs, an ideal solution here is for government to step in and start hiring those building companies to continue building preserving the jobs but also meeting the needs of the community.”
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