Anglicare Australia executive director Kasy Chambers said housing was the biggest cost facing Australians,but people on low incomes didn’t stand a chance of getting a stable roof over their head if they needed to move.
“Australia’s housing crisis has reached fever pitch. No part of the country has been spared. Rents are shooting up in towns and regions,and our cities have never been more expensive,” she said.
The Anglicare report surveyed 46,000 available rental listings available across the country in one weekend in March.
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The analysis found there were 720 affordable rentals for people earning a full-time minimum wage,and 312 rentals were affordable for someone on the age pension.
For those on other income support payments,however,there were even fewer options:51 rentals were affordable for someone on the disability support pensions,and there were just seven affordable rooms in share houses for someone on JobSeeker.
On Wednesday,separate data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed rents were higher across all capital cities in the first three months of this year. Over the past 12 months,rents jumped as high as 11.3 per cent in Darwin and by 9.7 per cent in Perth. Melbourne and Sydney experienced more modest growth in recent months and are still down for the year.