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Negative gearing – impact on rents

Dec 4, 2018
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Q. And do you think restricting negative gearing to new homes will increase rents, lower rents or make no difference?

Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
Lower rents 14% 20% 11% 12% 10%
Increase rents 37% 29% 49% 31% 41%
Make no difference 24% 28% 19% 26% 30%
Don’t know  26% 24% 21% 30% 18%

Labor voters are more likely than other voters to believe restricting negative gearing will lower rents (20%), whereas Coalition voters are more likely than others to this it will increase rents (49%).