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Aleksandra Bliszczyk

A New Rental Affordability Report Has Found Sydney Isn’t The Worst City To Rent So We’re All Fkd

Renting has become less affordable in every Australian city in 2022 compared to this time last year, a new rental affordability report has confirmed, but the least affordable city for renting may surprise you. The Annual Rental Affordability report published by SGS Economics and Planning and National Shelter on Tuesday found Hobart — no, not Sydney — was Australia’s least-affordable city to be a renter in 2022. Both Hobart and Brisbane broke records this year for the least affordable they’ve ever been, as did regional areas in Tassie, Victoria, Queensland and NSW, while Perth hit a six-year low. Now, you may be thinking, hang on, rents have only been going up so shouldn’t everywhere be breaking records? Well no, “rental affordability” is not how expensive rents are, but how much rent costs in relation to income,
we know wages are painfully stagnantoderately unaffordable, unaffordable, severely unaffordable or, in one northern LGA, Seaforth, e national rental vacancy rate has droppedNicola PowellPEDESTRIAN.TV back in July that finding a rental in a capital city was “like finding a needle in a haystack”, and things have only gotten worse since then. Leo Patterson Rosstold the ABC

“We’re really going back to times like the Great Depression to find comparable points in Australian history of when it was so tough to be a renter in Australia,” he said.

“We’re seeing prices set [according to] people’s desperation for a home. That means people are overpaying and that price is being leveraged. That’s not a sound way to run any market, but it’s particularly bad to put it into an essential service market.”

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