South Coast council begs holiday-home owners to rent out properties as housing crisis escalates

 A coastal New South Wales council is begging 7,500 holiday home owners from Canberra and Sydney to make their properties available to renters to ease the region's housing crisis.

Eurobodalla Shire Council Mayor Mathew Hatcher has written to a total of about 8,000 non-resident ratepayers who own homes along the South Coast, urging them to consider renting them out for one to two years while long-term solutions can be established.

"We know that a lot of Canberrans, and I was one of them, use this area as their holiday destination every summer," Councillor Hatcher said.

"And there's no doubt about it, we want you down here, we need your money, we need you to be a tourist for this region.

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