Premium Content Small business owners are being squeezed out of rentals, pressured to sell their homes, and even pushed to suicide as the true toll of a post-pandemic economy reveals itself. Desperate businesses have inundated Small Business Commissioner Maree Adshead s office with 4500 calls, including more 760 related to leasing disputes, new figures show. About 70 per cent of those involved battles with landlords over the amount of COVID rent relief to be paid under commercial leasing protections introduced last year. Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland s Amanda Rohan said businesses were now dealing with the enormous strain of having to repay previously frozen rents while also recovering from the most recent lockdown without the safety net of government support or rent relief.
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