Hi, I’m Matthew. As part of your Greens team on Council, I am helping lead our work on environmental sustainability, inequality, protest rights and more. Imagine a Sydney where everyone has a house to call home. Where everything you need to live a good life is affordable and accessible. That’s the city I’m fighting for.

My first memories of when I moved to Glebe are of cold nights where I had to decide whether to pay my rent or put food on the table. Where I juggled multiple jobs, waiting tables, washing dishes, cleaning homes, just to keep the lights on. And while those experiences for me are now in the past, for far too many in Sydney they are an ongoing reality.

It’s never been harder to get by in Sydney, rents are soaring and the cost of everyday essentials like groceries, transport and medicine keep going up. I believe it is the job of the government to use every tool available to make life in our city easier.

That’s why since becoming one of your Councillors I’ve fought to make Sydney a City that delivers affordable and accessible housing. Over the last term on Council, I’ve campaigned for Council-build rent-controlled public housing, to cap AirBNBs and return thousands of inner-city homes as secure, long-term rentals, to make Council services more affordable, and increase the wages of our essential workers.