The Minister for Housing has just announced that there has been a breakdown in negotiations to tighten the Housing Rental Act.

This is surprising and annoyed by the Unity List's member of the Housing Committee, Rosa Lund, who believes that one was close to an agreement.– In the Unity List, we are incredibly unsympathetic to the failure to bring together a majority for an agreement that would effectively protect our tenants from private equity funds' greedy housing speculation, while guaranteeing cooperative homeowners from value losses. Unfortunately, there were parties that put the need for housing speculators higher than the consideration that ordinary people should also be able to afford housing in the larger cities.– I have suggested that the intervention should be greater, but the Unity List was of course ready to accept the government's proposal for a seven-year waiting period for the section 5.2 renovations that were on the table. Unfortunately, there were others who would not agree to this, even though it would be an effective intervention against the short-term housing speculation of private equity funds. I am surprised that there was no greater willingness to limit this search for fast profits at the expense of ordinary tenants.– It is deeply tragic that a political agreement has not been reached. But this goes far from the fact that the struggle to secure tenants' rights is over. In the Unity List, we will continue to fight to completely abolish Section 5.2 and stop landlords' unscrupulous exploitation of tenants so that we can also have mixed cities in the future where ordinary people can afford to live.