Rose Jackson says answer given during ‘hard’ live ABC radio interview pertained to what she thought people should pay, not what they paid on average
NSW housing minister Rose Jackson has clarified comments she made suggesting it was possible to rent a two-bedroom Sydney apartment for ‘a couple of hundred bucks’ a week.NSW housing minister Rose Jackson has clarified comments she made suggesting it was possible to rent a two-bedroom Sydney apartment for ‘a couple of hundred bucks’ a week.
“This is the thing about the housing market, there’s a lot of variety,” she continued. “Like, a luxe two-bed penthouse in the eastern suburbs is pretty different to a neat and tidy, two-bedroom flat next to a train station in western Sydney. They’re both good homes, yeah they’re going to have different price points”, Jackson claimed she had meant $200 was the reasonable weekly rent someone should pay in Sydney for an apartment, not what people were actually paying on average.
Jackson said “obviously” she knew Sydney rentals cost “hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of dollars” a week. The Tenants’ Union of NSW chief executive officer, Leo Patterson Ross, said it wasn’t easy to find a rental for less than $200 a week and there were often additional expenses associated with cheaper properties.
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