Better rights for tenants: NSW Labor

The NSW opposition says it would be happy if the government stole its new rental reform policy that gives tenants more power.

Landlords would be banned from kicking out a tenant without a good reason under rental reforms the NSW opposition is proposing.

Five-year leases would also be a possibility under the changes that would set 12-month leases as the norm.

"There are two million people renting in NSW today but, unfortunately, the rules of the game for renters are from the horse-and-buggy era," NSW Labor leader Luke Foley told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.


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