Governments over the decades have relinquished their responsibility in building and providing social low cost housing

this is a dangerous precedent in a free market country

This short sighted policy will encourage home owners to sell in a high real estate market causing a worse rental market

Governments should be releasing land and building small sustainable social and subsidised

-1 to 2 bedrooms, apartment style, communal gardens/facilities etc

investors cannot afford for governments to mandate rental caps while expenses are not guaranteed to reduce as well

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Welcome to the free market everyone ! This means prices go up and down as determined by market forces - NOT governments - so learn to mind your own business and STAY OUT OF OUR LIVES !! You will NOT cap rental increases or freeze rents and you will NOT be allowed to grow a state of communism where you think of landlords as the "rich" and "evil" and everyone else as "good". The vast majority of land-lords are incredibly hardworking ordinary people and will NOT be subject to caps on income.

Will the government also freeze or limit price increases for petrol, to big businesses like supermarkets and utilities - all of whom are far more responsible for ripping us off via un-necessary price increases well beyond their actual costs ? Didn't think so - cause its so much harder to stand up to them isn't it ?

The QLD government loves to take all it can from special interest and curiously well-funded minority groups resulting in unacceptable interference. It IS corruption whether you admit it or not.

So legislate all you want - it doesn't mean we'll abide by your ridiculous interfering "laws" and all you're doing is pushing us towards the inevitable - the permanent removal of the state government and / or secession if that's what it takes to keep the state government out of peoples lives.

We are sick to death of people whining about everything - expecting other people to pay for their "disadvantage" especially when times get tough. Learn to manage your own money better or move to Cuba, China or Russia. Oh wait - none of them are really communist anymore either !

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NSW Governments answer to the housing rental crisis:-

His landlord is the New South Wales government. And it's selling the estate to developers

Today on ABC news!

governments have a lot to answer for

Private investors should not bare the brunt for their incompetence and short sighted agendas and policies

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It is sad times for everyone, tenants need to appreciate the landlord suffers every time a rate rise happens and hurts them financially as well. People will stop buying investment properties if the government changes the rules and the rental market will have even more issues. People may need to look at stop smoking, drinking and reducing the cost to their households. Governments have never stopped companies like Woolworths or Coles putting up their prices as they cannot sustain loss so why should a landlord be any different.

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All good and valid comments made by others. Just to focus on one aspect as a landlord of two houses for the last 8-10 years. Investment properties were once a good investment vehicle , which provided forced savings with continual costs in the hopes that one day you make a profit of which there is no guarantees. Over the years governments have eroded deductions and entered more legislation and costs to the landlord to the point now that I really don't see the benefits of owning an investment property in the future and I have advised my son's to avoid also. Media and government bang on about negative gearing like its some pot of gold when in reality its not. Within a few short years of ownership it recedes back to positive gearing in which the governments reaps in the tax to it's coffers, but nobody mentions that. And the fact that most investors don't earn enough money to have negative gearing working for you in the first place. New caps and what ever is just another nail in the coffin for investors who have fled the Australian rental market by around a third in the last few years. We are making the same mistakes as Ireland and too stupid to see it. If you really want to improve the rental affordability, a big start is making it just a bit attractive to gamble on a rental property investment. Personally, I can't wait to sell mine and get out of all the hassle. And no, I won't make a fortune from it, but I do feel sad for my current tenant's and what will happen to them. I don't see an investor buying the houses, I wouldn't because the numbers don't add up, and any investment adviser or bank manager worth his or her salt will say the same.

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You, my friend, have an incredibly small world view.

Not only should rent be capped, but property prices should be as well. It's sad to think that your perspective on this is entirely focused on your income, investments, money. It's greed speaking here. Think on that, please.

Houses are not simply "investments". In fact, the idea of investing in houses for financial return is pretty awful. You should be buying a house to live in, not to profit from, and they should be affordable.

You should not be buying properties simply so you can charge as much rent as you can for them, sell them for much more later and guarantee a "good return on investment".

Why? Because people need homes to live in. It's a fundamental, basic human need. It takes all sorts to make a world, and not everyone is wasting their lives investing and so on. People that are not rich still need a house in which to live - that they can afford. They're not just pawns in a game for you to play with and profit off. Some mature empathy and understanding would go a long way here you childish, entitled, greedy little man.

This is one of the reasons Australia has such ugly architechre. Homes aren't being created from a place of care and inspiration, but simply being built quickly as investments. Profit should not be the motivator here, making a nice house to live in should. If Europe was the same, it'd also look like a cheap, uninspired shithole.

Most of our problems come from man's inner demons. This one rearing it's ugly head is greed. I actually think you should take some time to think on this, try to better yourself as a person if you can. Smoking some herb might help. Look in the spiritual mirror brother, time to grow.

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