Everybody’s Home is urging the federal government to boost social housing in its upcoming Budget, as a new report paints a dire picture of rental affordability across the country.
Anglicare’s Rental Affordability Snapshot lays bare a harsh reality: affordable rentals are almost non-existent for those on income support, and scarce for full-time minimum wage earners.
The report also shows increases to rental supply in parts of the country hasn’t made renting more affordable.
Everybody’s Home spokesperson Jennifer Kirkaldy said more social housing is key to easing the housing crisis.
“Every year the Rental Affordability Snapshot serves as a sobering reminder: the housing crisis deepens the longer that the government fails to act,” Ms Kirkaldy said.