Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 9. 1ts May 1973

Rent Freeze

Rent Freeze

Excellent promises were made regarding "stopping profiteering by landlords", "freezing rents", "providing rent relief before Christmas" etc. In fact, the action taken has been so pitiful and the legal net has such large meshes that scarcely one of the landlord sharks has been caught. The specific promises of a rent freeze have been broken. Most landlords probably get a lot of wealth increases from capital gains but Labour won't even introduce full rent control based on normal costings, let alone take capital gains into account in fixing rents.