Greens vow action as huge rent hikes see adults forced to move back in with parents

Jeremy Bryant and his brother offered to pay an additional $80 a week in rent for their Redfern property, but were told to vacate. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Jeremy Bryant wasn’t expecting to be moving back in with his parents just a few weeks after turning 30.

But that’s where the successful musician and university student now finds himself, along with his little brother, after the rent on their Redfern home was raised by $110 a week.