The Greens have an ambitious plan to:
build homes for people not profit
Right now, there are more people than ever are struggling to put a roof over their head. We need an ambitious plan to put housing on the right track.
THE GREENS WILL:
- Establish a publicly owned developer and builder which will build & buy 10,000 public homes over ten years and end homelessness in the ACT
- Freeze rent increases for two years and then cap them at 2% after that so renters can actually afford to live in Canberra
- Change housing rules so that we can build way more houses in the suburbs we already live, without paving over the environment
BIG PROBLEMS NEED BIG SOLUTIONS
The Greens have the biggest plan for public housing since our city was founded.
We're going to establish a publicly owned developer and builder which will build and buy 10,000 public homes over the next ten years!That's like BIG, big!
Our fully costed plan will find homes for every single person on the 3000 people long public housing waiting list and more.
Time was, public housing was everywhere in Canberra - on every street corner and next to every shop.
There are millions of renters staring down the barrel of eviction or financial stress if they cop one more massive rent increase, which is why urgent action is so important.
Our plan will start to give renters doing it tough the option to move into affordable and comfortable public homes.
It's about time we start expecting the government to take charge in the housing market again, and make public housing a viable choice for many more Canberrans.
RENTS HAVE GONE UP 20% SINCE 2021
That's why the Greens will freeze rents for two years, introduce a two percent cap on rent increases afterwards and ban all forms of rent bidding so that renters can actually afford to live in Canberra's cooked rental market
We'll make sure landlords and real estate agents follow these new rental laws by establishing an independent Rental Commissioner that represents them.