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The Victorian parliament will sit next Thursday in an emergency sitting, to pass some of the Covid-19 legislation the Andrews government has put forward.
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On top of land tax relief, the Victorian government is putting more money into mediation for landlords and tenants for rental relief, if Covid-19 has impacted someone’s income.
Dan Andrews:
The key point here, though, is that even with a good-faith agreement, there will be many tenants who are left under financial stress.
And the definition, if you like, of, that is if your rent represents more than 30% of your income, then you are under real stress. If that’s the case – so you’ve got a good-faith negotiation, you do a deal, reduce the rent by a certain amount, but still that rent represents more than 30% of your obviously reduced income, then there will be rent assistance, some $80 million worth of rent assistance, that will be available to the best part of 40,000 tenants right across the state.
