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Greens call for a rent freeze during the fuel crisis
The Greens are calling on Anthony Albanese to use Thursday’s meeting of the national cabinet to coordinate a country-wide rent freeze and a moratorium on evictions for the duration of the fuel crisis.
Renters around the country are facing some of the worst housing insecurity in living memory. We saw a rare example during Covid of a government doing their job and protecting renters from the volatility of global economic circumstances by putting a ban on rent increases and evictions. There’s nothing stopping that happening again.
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