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I actually found EdwinZ’s post enlightening and helpful. The problem isn’t that people rent out their rooms or even their houses – it’s that a $50 billion dollar global mega-corporations is selling itself as a cosy little local company that’s all about helping ordinary people when it’s really an agency that is driving change in legislation that will be to the detriment of 90 percent of people living in apartments, just so it can continue its out-of-control expansion.
Taking a “those who aren’t with us are against us” attitude makes it very easy for them to dismiss dissenters as some sort of lunatic, self-interested fringe.
Millie’s position is very specific – government MPs have been breaking the law and encouraging others to do the same in her building so they can make money from the Sydney bolt-holes while they are back in their constituencies.
What has the Labor Party not jumped on this? I’d guess it’s because they are not sure some of their members aren’t doing exactly the same.
But there is a grey area and there is room for compromise and the best chance of a reasonable outcome is to allow holiday lets where they don’t harm anyone (including by pushing residential rents up) and keep it out of apartments except for genuine room rentals where the hosts are in situ.