Chris Minns talks rental reform [Video]

NSW Premier Chris Minns has warned that sweeping rental reforms are the only way to provide housing certainty to young people, who are fleeing Sydney and putting further pressure on small businesses that are struggling under the weight of the worsening worker shortage.

The Minns government has committed to ending so-called no grounds evictions on fixed and periodic leases, which will see landlords banned from kicking out tenants without “commonsense and reasonable reasons”.

New data on evictions, compiled from the government’s End of Tenancy Survey, shows that there are 320,000 tenancies that end each year in NSW and 73,000 of those, or 23 per cent, are “landlord led”. Of those 73,000, about 32,000 are no ground evictions, or 10 per cent of all tenancies that end.

In an exclusive interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Minns said it would have been politically impossible for a …