RAHU Demands

  • Freeze and Cap Rent
    • Freeze Rent increases for 2 years
    • Cap rent increases: tie it to minimum wage growth
  • Make the Market Fairer
    • Set national level, enforced and adequate Minimum Standards: Make homes liveable: fix repairs, heating and cooling
    • Tax empties: end homes being used as empty investments
    • Abolish no-grounds evictions nationally
    • Greater regulation of Airbnb and the short-stay industry
  • Improve legislation and action from the Government:
    • Build public housing to eliminate waiting lists.
    • Put an end to the Government ignoring tenants in decisions making
    • Affordable Housing be changed from arbitrary definitions in legislation to “rents can be no higher than 30% of an individual’s income”.
    • Raise the rent assistance rate: remove the caps for assistance
    • Make homes liveable and accessible – mandatory accessibility accommodations.
  • Stop urban sprawl: build high-quality mid-rise apartments in existing suburbs and resist greenfield development