Build-to-rent incentives 'may open door for predators'

Tenant protections should be built into build-to-rent incentive schemes, experts and advocates say. (Paul Miller/AAP PHOTOS)

Australians will not be protected from rent gouging or other predatory landlord behaviour under a proposed government program to alleviate the housing crisis, advocates and experts say.

The federal government's Build to Rent legislation is under the microscope after the Greens and opposition teamed up in June to send the bill to a Senate inquiry.