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High-profile host of The Project Waleed Aly has pushed back on the Greens proposed rental freeze - which if implemented could have already saved Aussie renters thousands of dollars. 

In a spirited segment on "The Project" on Thursday, Aly debated founder of the popular rental property review website S*** Rentals Jordan van den Berg, also known online as 'Purple Pingers'.

Mr van den Berg told The Project he is in favour of the rent freeze, revealing the positive impact it would make on renters' lives.

'It's pretty simple, give renters a bit of breathing room and let them spend money on something that isn't an ever-increasing human right.

'I know people who are choosing between medicine and their rent. You should never have to choose between those two fundamental things to be alive, or like putting food on the table for your family and that kind of stuff,' he said. 

Aly agreed that no should ever have to make the choice between medicine and their rent, but it was then he challenged the proposed rental freeze.

He said evidence from around the world on the concept of a rent freeze isn't that encouraging. 

'In the US, the result was a whole lot of houses were just left to become uninhabitable as landlords then made insurance claims on damage,' he said.