Essential Workforce Hit by Rental Affordability Crisis

Essential Workforce Hit by Rental Affordability Crisis
Generic real estate image from the Queensland suburb of Stafford, in Brisbane, Australia, on May 5, 2018. AAP Image/Glenn Hunt
Rebecca Zhu
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Essential care and service workers are facing a rental crisis in Australia as an analysis found that rent has risen to over one-third of workers’ weekly income in a majority of the country’s geographical regions.

Affordable housing campaign group, Everybody’s Home, cross-referenced SQM Research rent data with the basic hourly wage of workers in disability care, aged care, childcare, hospitality, and supermarkets.