Rental crisis: Airbnb and holiday home owners urged to let out properties to long-term renters

Councils across Australia, including Noosa in Queensland, are appealing to ratepayers to make their homes available to long-term renters to help address the housing crisis. Photograph: Peter Harrison/Getty Images

Councils across the country are urging people with empty holiday homes and Airbnbs to move them on to the long-term rental markets in a bid to deal with the housing crisis.

But policy experts say doing callouts to create more rental housing stock is “taking a piecemeal approach” to a crisis that needs urgent intervention.