‘I’m obviously not first choice’: rental crisis forcing older Australians back into share houses

RBA governor Phllip Lowe says more people need to share, while housing advocates say the government needs to build more homes. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

At 51, Mandy Pritchard does not want to live in a share house, but the unfolding rental crisis means the full-time worker may have to.

It’s a situation the Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe, suggested more people would need to consider to bring rents down – telling Australians on Wednesday “we need more people on average to live in each dwelling”.