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Hundreds of homes being ‘left vacant’ by landlords in Adelaide’s CBD, welfare group warns
Welfare group Shelter SA has said offering landlords incentives to unlock a vast body of vacant dwellings in Adelaide’s CBD could help significantly reduce homelessness, as well as rental stress.
Key points:
- Shelter SA says there are hundreds of empty dwellings in Adelaide
- It says encouraging landlords to make them available could help reduce homelessness
- It has raised the option of a vacancy tax, but says positive incentives are preferable
Shelter SA has released a report into vacancy rates in Adelaide, and estimates hundreds of dwellings in the CBD are currently unoccupied at a time when there are “increasing levels of housing stress”.
The group said about half the 1,076 unoccupied homes in Adelaide’s CBD identified in the 2016 Census could…
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