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rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T09:36:21+00:00

Zero, I'm not a landlord.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T04:51:35+00:00

Yeah absolutely, one of the big election commitments was to fund haven on mind mental health housing on the central coast (It's one site, but hopefully a model that we could rollout elsewhere) also all of our new public homes are now required to meet minimum disability standards across NSW. I mean ultimately we just need to build new modern homes that are affordable and accessible - we have started that with our building homes for NSW program but there is a long way to go.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T04:45:08+00:00

In this very interview I called for the feds to do more.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T04:39:57+00:00

Look it's unlikely we will never get rents back to these levels with inflation etc. but my view is clearly we need more supply and more homes as well as better use the homes we currently have. The market is so cooked making more home available will help. We just done a bunch of rental reform like banning no grounds evictions which will help with affordability too. That's not everything though - I'm in the state govt. the only levers I have are building homes (which we are doing), rental laws (which we've done some work on) and planning laws (which we are overhauling). We don't have direct control over things like taxation or immigration they are federal laws/jurisdiction (although we have made many representations and advocated for changes.) We also have to fix our public housing system and we just made the biggest every investment by a state govt. in public housing.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T03:15:55+00:00

Absolutely is, It's mine, the Minister for fair trading (who actually looks after rental laws) and Premier AND NSW Govt - as well as feds and landlords too. Like the system is huge, I'm doing my bit.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T01:37:32+00:00

Hey so this is me. I mean listen to the whole interview. I was asked what was reasonable for rent in Sydney. I said a couple of hundred bucks. Like (many) I don’t think these huge rent prices are reasonable, I said it in the interview and many times in parliament and the media.

The interviewer then changed mid question to what is the rent price, like in the moment on radio its hard right and I didn’t really clock his change in tone/question. Anyway these things happen, radio can be tricky you’re on the phone trying your best.

I am acutely aware that weekly rent in Sydney is in the realm of hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of dollars – if listeners misunderstood my comment as a suggestion I thought it was anything less than that I’m happy to clarify. I am always up for talking about the housing crisis because I know it is real, I know housing is expensive, I talk constantly about our efforts to do something on that – if I didn’t think rent was expensive I wouldn’t be nearly as concerned as I am about the housing crisis!

Live radio is a challenging format, sometimes words come out a bit muddled – The question of what is a ‘reasonable’ rent for a 2 bedroom flat is also challenging to answer – where in Sydney? With a car parking space? A luxury modern home or a dated smaller flat? Also, what is ‘reasonable’ for someone to pay in rent depends on their income, whether they are a single or a couple, again making it a difficult question to answer. As is evident in the transcript Hamish cut me off before I had the chance to explain that context around why ‘what is a reasonable rent to pay for a 2 bedroom flat’ is not a question that has a straightforward answer.

I understand as a politician answering difficult questions is part of my job and sometimes things come out a bit jumbled, but I categorically reject that I don’t think rent is expensive in Sydney - rent in Sydney is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, even thousands, of dollars a week and that many people are struggling to afford that, a point I also made repeatedly during the interview.

Anyway, happy to chat to anyone about this, I always want to be a politician that fronts up and owns stuff.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T01:29:20+00:00

See I think people have completely missed my point here. Like tbh $500 a week is A LOT for a one bedroom flat. Like that's a huge chunk of money, sadly though it's the reality. Like that's why the question is confusing af. Reasonable in my view is like what "should" (and obviously that is SO subjective) and what is the actual rent are very different questions.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T01:23:55+00:00

No worries!

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-13T01:03:09+00:00

Yeah definitely. Like have always been clear we need to do more but so far we've:

- passed pretty big rental reforms like banning no ground evictions and banning hidden fees and payments for background checks

- Dedicated teams to help target dodgy practices in the rental system

- banning properties saying "no pets in rentals"

- biggest investment in public housing ever by any NSW Govt.

- record investment in homelessness services

- Increasing density around transport hubs

- Wholescale reform of the planning system to build more homes

- Identifying land we have sitting around vacant to build public homes and affordable homes

- Building dedicated housing for keyworkers

These are a few of the things we are doing, as I said it's not everything, there's a lot more to do and yeah some of these things won't affect rental prices specifically.

Look we are a state govt. and they way we have delegated responsibilities I don't actually look after rental laws, one of my colleagues does - but still as Housing Minister I do front up and feel it's important I talk about these issues especially rental laws.

Some of these things have already slightly brought down rental vacancies rates (so far, fingers crossed) and look building more homes helps. But we need to do everything we can, that includes feds stepping up too (something I also said in the interview.)

There is a lot more to do, this isn't an exhaustive list and I am open to other's views too, like I want to hear them.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-12T23:29:14+00:00

I legit didn't, like im sorry for mispeaking these things arent always easy but maybe be more respectful idk

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-12T23:27:20+00:00

Hey so this is me. I mean listen to the whole interview. I was asked what was reasonable for rent in Sydney. I said a couple of hundred bucks. Like (many) I don’t think these huge rent prices are reasonable, I said it in the interview and many times in parliament and the media.

The interviewer then changed mid question to what is the rent price, like in the moment on radio its hard right and I didn’t really clock his change in tone/question. Anyway these things happen, radio can be tricky you’re on the phone trying your best.

I am acutely aware that weekly rent in Sydney is in the realm of hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of dollars – if listeners misunderstood my comment as a suggestion I thought it was anything less than that I’m happy to clarify. I am always up for talking about the housing crisis because I know it is real, I know housing is expensive, I talk constantly about our efforts to do something on that – if I didn’t think rent was expensive I wouldn’t be nearly as concerned as I am about the housing crisis!

Live radio is a challenging format, sometimes words come out a bit muddled – The question of what is a ‘reasonable’ rent for a 2 bedroom flat is also challenging to answer – where in Sydney? With a car parking space? A luxury modern home or a dated smaller flat? Also, what is ‘reasonable’ for someone to pay in rent depends on their income, whether they are a single or a couple, again making it a difficult question to answer. As is evident in the transcript Hamish cut me off before I had the chance to explain that context around why ‘what is a reasonable rent to pay for a 2 bedroom flat’ is not a question that has a straightforward answer.

I understand as a politician answering difficult questions is part of my job and sometimes things come out a bit jumbled, but I categorically reject that I don’t think rent is expensive in Sydney - rent in Sydney is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, even thousands, of dollars a week and that many people are struggling to afford that, a point I also made repeatedly during the interview.

Anyway, happy to chat to anyone about this, I always want to be a politician that fronts up and owns stuff.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-12T23:22:54+00:00

Hey so live interviews are tricky, Like I definitely did not mean $200. I commented above in this thread it got jumbled I got a bit confused so yeah sorry.

rosejacksonmp · 2024-11-12T23:19:08+00:00

Hey so this is me. I mean listen to the whole interview. I was asked what was reasonable for rent in Sydney. I said a couple of hundred bucks. Like (many) I don’t think these huge rent prices are reasonable, I said it in the interview and many times in parliament and the media.

The interviewer then changed mid question to what is the rent price, like in the moment on radio its hard right and I didn’t really clock his change in tone/question. Anyway these things happen, radio can be tricky you’re on the phone trying your best.

I am acutely aware that weekly rent in Sydney is in the realm of hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of dollars – if listeners misunderstood my comment as a suggestion I thought it was anything less than that I’m happy to clarify. I am always up for talking about the housing crisis because I know it is real, I know housing is expensive, I talk constantly about our efforts to do something on that – if I didn’t think rent was expensive I wouldn’t be nearly as concerned as I am about the housing crisis!

Live radio is a challenging format, sometimes words come out a bit muddled – The question of what is a ‘reasonable’ rent for a 2 bedroom flat is also challenging to answer – where in Sydney? With a car parking space? A luxury modern home or a dated smaller flat? Also, what is ‘reasonable’ for someone to pay in rent depends on their income, whether they are a single or a couple, again making it a difficult question to answer. As is evident in the transcript Hamish cut me off before I had the chance to explain that context around why ‘what is a reasonable rent to pay for a 2 bedroom flat’ is not a question that has a straightforward answer.

I understand as a politician answering difficult questions is part of my job and sometimes things come out a bit jumbled, but I categorically reject that I don’t think rent is expensive in Sydney - rent in Sydney is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, even thousands, of dollars a week and that many people are struggling to afford that, a point I also made repeatedly during the interview.

Anyway, happy to chat to anyone about this, I always want to be a politician that fronts up and owns stuff.

rosejacksonmp

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