Greens weirdos propose rental wreckage

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Won’t find a kind word from me about specufestors. But I am now wondering if we need hate speech laws to protect them against the Greens.

Victorian landlords would need a license to rent out their homes under a new policy call from the state’s Greens party as an election looms.

The party noted it would give licensed landlords three strikes before they would be effectively evicted from the state’s landlord pool, and banned from renting out homes as a bid to further crack down on ‘dodgy landlords’ and to make rentals more affordable.

“In Victoria you need a license to keep bees and if you want to use a metal detector,” Ms de Vietri said.

“It’s time to hold dodgy landlords accountable.”

You should need a licence to be a politician. That should include a basic grasp of markets and economics.

Who will pay for this licensing operation? Renters.

Who will pay to upgrade houses if they are needed? Renters.

Who will pay if the houses are not upgraded and rental stock is reduced? Renters.

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Who is paying for the Greens’ environmentally destructive mass immigration open-border lunacy? Renters.

Making rents cheaper is a cinch. Especially if you’re a genuine greenie and are sick of urban destruction, water shortages, and a stalling energy transition.

You either need massive Chinese capital to come in and level the environment to build urban jungles, as in the 2015-2019 period.

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Or you need fewer people, lower rental demand, more green space, and a future for the planet.

For a genuine green, the answer is as obvious as the fake greens are stupid.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.