The very smart and incredible May Azize, the spokesperson for Everybody’s Home, has spoken to the ABC about the lack of policy, and thought, for renters in this campaign:

More and more Australians are going to be renting for life, and 640,000 renters across the country are in really, really extreme rental stress.

There’s just nothing put on the table for them at this election, which is really disappointing to see. So what we’re seeing from major parties is proposals that might seem, on the surface, like they’re going to put a bit of extra money in the pockets of people when they go out and compete for housing.

But the problem is, when you put a couple of extra thousand dollars, a couple of extra tens of thousands of dollars in people’s pockets when they go out to auction and bid for homes, is that everybody else has that money as well.

And what it does is push up the cost of housing. It’s not really helping anybody get ahead. So it’s not just not helping renters. It’s not helping people get into home ownership necessarily either. It’s just pushing up the cost of housing for everybody.