Queensland Greens MP Michael Berkman has underlain a plan in which evicting tenants under ‘no grounds’ would be banned, with a rent hike of as little as 1% a year suggested.
Berkman said landlords and real estate agents had immense power over tenants' lives: the power to make them homeless.
This comes as The Australian Homeless Monitor 2018 report saw Brisbane’s homeless rate increase by 32 percent since 2011. The state government has begun to undergo changes to tenancy laws, however Berkman suggests more work needs to be done.