Rent freezes a hot topic but do they work?
API Magazine examines how rent caps and freezes have worked overseas and presents the arguments for and against proposed policy measures aimed at easing the rental and housing crises.
The rent control issue has generated strong views on both sides of the debate. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
Rent caps, or rent freezes, have burst onto the national political stage and may even be the catalyst for an early election.
Though rent freezes have emerged as one of the most contentious points in the national debate around resolving the housing and rental crisis, they have been tried around the world.
But does rent control work?
Since The Greens held the Federal Government’s signature housing policy to ransom
with its demand for rent price …
