Our housing system is failing millions of Australians.
Rents keep going up. And we don’t have enough secure, affordable rentals.
This year’s Rental Affordability Snapshot shows that we need action now to stop more and more people from falling into rental stress and hardship.
Every year, Anglicare Australia tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. We do this by taking a snapshot of the thousands of properties listed for rent on realestate.com.au.
We test whether each property is affordable for Australians on the lowest incomes. Each year, the results get worse and worse.
This year’s Rental Affordability Snapshot surveyed over 74,000 rental listings across Australia.
We found that:
» 386 rentals were affordable for a single person on the Age Pension
» 236 rentals were affordable for a person on the Disability Support Pension
» 3 rentals, all sharehouses, were affordable for a person on JobSeeker
» 0 rentals were affordable for a person on Youth Allowance.
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