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national regional reporter Jess Davis

Councils called to push landlords to make vacant or holiday homes available for renters

Councils are being urged to push ratepayers with empty homes to make them available for rent. (Supplied: Pexels)

Councils across Australia have been called on to ask landlords to make more properties available to renters.

Eurobodalla Shire mayor Mathew Hatcher last year wrote to NSW South Coast holiday home owners begging them to put unoccupied houses on the rental market, which resulted in more than 30 property owners telling the council they intended to or had already put their secondary property up for rent.

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