Homes For All Petiton
To: Australian Federal Government

I was just sent this petition to sign, which is gaining a lot more signatures than my pitiful attempt at social networking.
Right now if you’re on a minimum wage, you can’t afford to rent 99.3% of rental properties. 0% are affordable for someone on JobSeeker or Youth Allowance – and only 0.3% are affordable to a person on the Age Pension.

An essential worker – someone working in health, education, construction or emergency services – can afford to rent only 3% of rental listings.

That is clearly, clearly wrong.

We need the Government to get serious on housing.
Why is this important?
All the evidence from experts is clear. We need to:

Massively increase the supply of housing;
Boost social housing;
Scale back negative gearing and reassess tax breaks for wealthy landlords;
Develop nationally consistent rental laws that set consistent standards and protect renters' rights; and
Allocate housing for key workers.

Home ownership is currently out of reach for most Australians – but that doesn’t need to be the case.
The petion is on the link below, I've left it long so you can see it's origins.
https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/homesforall?link_id=1&can_id=64ec9db78727a29321fcec2cdafe31f1&source=email-firstname-default-friend-we-are-in-a-housing-crisis&email_referrer=email_2770810&email_subject=firstname-default-friend-we-are-in-a-housing-crisis&&