RESIDENTIAL HOUSING
IS FOR THE
HOUSING OF RESIDENTS
Property Owners and Tenants choose
to live in Residential Dwellings
and Residential Areas
Having purchased or rented a home or an apartment, the former NSW Minister for Planning, Rob Stokes MP decided that we should all now live in unregulated
quasi-Hotels/Transit Zones. Stokes used ministerial discretion to change the NSW State Environmental Planning Policy, making commercial short-term holiday rentals ‘exempt’ and/or ‘complying development’ state-wide.
Drunken parties, crime, security and
safety risks, higher levies/taxes/
insurance premiums etc.
Home buyers/Tenants must now compete
with Investors for a foothold
in the housing market
and a place to call home.
State Parliamentarians profiting from
short-term holiday rentals have seen to the “Illegal Use of Premises” legalised.
Changes to Residential Zoning and Certification have been enacted retrospectively. A NSW Senior Counsel considers this contempt for the proprietary rights of NSW Title Deed Holders.
What Can You Do?
Write to Premier Chris Minns
Write to Minister Paul Scully
and Minister Anoulack Chanthivong
and your State MP.
NSW State MPs who were/are
short-term holiday letting landlords include, but are not limited to:
Former Premier John Barilaro
Former Opposition Leader Jodi McKay
Plus former MPs Thomas George
John Williams and Kevin Humphries
Current short-term rental MPs include, but are not limited to:
Minister Ryan Parks
Jo Haylen
Clayton Barr
Mark Pearson
And which NSW Members of Parliament were referred to the
NSW ICAC
over undisclosed properties and income,
had their STRs listed on
NSW Land and Environment
Court Orders
for the “Illegal Use of Premises”,
and then went on to vote on
short-term rental legislation
without disclosing any
conflict of interest?
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“Australia is the most penetrated
market in the world.”
Sam McDonagh
former Airbnb Country Manager
Australia and New Zealand
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“The financial cost of the increased wear and tear is borne by all owners. One Sydney building commissioned reports on the impacts and tracked the annual savings after removing all short-term lets (205 or 384 apartments at the peak).
The building saved $1.3m over three years,
while reducing levies 5% per year
in each of those three years.
Few strata owners realise that
all owners are jointly and severally liable for costs incurred.
What if your building insurance does not cover a claim if a resident or short-stay client is injured or worse?”
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“Zoning Laws are only as good as the enforcement behind them.
If you don’t enforce, what’s the good
of having them on the books?
It comes down to trust in Public Officials to enforce the laws…because
if they won’t enforce, they might as well not be there.”
Jay Brikmann
Chief Economist & Senior Vice President
of Research and Education
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)