If the Greens have any influence in City Hall after the March council election, they will penalise landlords who leave Brisbane properties vacant.
There will be no formal coalition between Labor and the Greens at the next Brisbane City Council election, Greens’ mayoral candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan has declared.
Greens mayoral candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan said investment properties - vacant for more than six months - would be rated at 20 times the traditional rate to force landlords to rent or sell empty homes.The current administration, led by Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, has repeatedly warned voters the 2024 election will be a contest between Schrinner’s Liberal National Party team and a Labor-Greens “coalition of crisis”.
The Greens say their property policy would compel investors to rent or sell up to 15,000 investment properties during the ongoing housing crisis, rather than pay higher rates. “In a context where no party wins enough wards to command a majority, the Greens would be negotiating across party lines on a ‘policy by policy’ basis, rather than entering into a formal coalition agreement,” Sriranganathan said.Advertisement
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