Some Australians are living on just $30 a week after paying rent, as a new report has laid bare 'shocking' findings about the decline in housing affordability for some of the nation's most vulnerable.
It found rental affordability has crashed, and the market is less affordable than ever.This article contains references to domestic violence and suicide/self-harm.
A decade ago, Mary was forced to make a difficult decision: stay with an abusive partner, or flee the home she’d spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on in order to save her life.She left and lived for years in regional Victoria, but an unaffordable rental increase after the pandemic hit forced her out. She was told to vacate the property by her landlord wanting to sell the home.
Affordability was assessed as being no more than 30 per cent of a household budget against a range of Centrelink payment rates, and the minimum wage. The Anglicare report found no affordable rentals or share houses for someone on the JobSeeker payment in NSW's Illawarra region. “I can't buy phone credit, I can't pay my internet bill, I can't buy money to put on my travel card. There's just no way to stretch it to cover everything,” he told the Anglicare report.Anglicare Australia said the issue was not just about supply, but an inadequate income support level.
“This year’s result is the worst we have ever seen for a person on the minimum wage, with affordability halving over the last year.
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