The Greens welcome news the Hobart City Council has voted to seek a Planning Scheme amendment to ban new applications for homes to be used as short-stay accommodation.
Analysis undertaken by the Greens reveals applications have been made to make 41 Hobart homes short stay accommodation in the last six months, with 1 in 4 formerly used as rentals.
CBOS’ new short stay accommodation statistics show 500 whole-homes have been lost to short stay in little more than a year.
While the Liberals’ short stay levy bill has passed the lower house, it doesn’t take the action Tasmanians need to stop the loss of homes to Airbnb.
While the Liberals have tabled a bill to introduce a short stay levy, it doesn’t take the action Tasmanians need to rein in the loss of whole-home rentals to Airbnb.
New Tasmania’s State of Housing Dashboard indicators released by TasCOSS and LGAT shows the rapid growth of short stay accommodation is making things worse for Tasmanian renters.
New data released by Domain shows rents are continuing to skyrocket in Tasmania, and demonstrates why the Rockliff Government must urgently act to limit Airbnb.
Can you confirm the government has abandoned its short‑stay levy policy? If so, why have you sacrificed $44 million in income when the budget is in such crisis?
The new Quarterly Rental Review from Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) shows that rents are continuing to rise and vacancy rates lower, while landlords’ profits go up.
The Liberals have allowed Tasmanian’s rentals to be converted to short stay accommodation for too long.