Canberra has become the second most affordable capital for renters in an average income household, but pensioners and those on JobSeeker payments are among the many "priced out" of the market, a new report shows.
The annually released National Shelter-SGS Economics and Planning Rental Affordability Index found median rents have dipped slightly in the ACT over the past year but it is largely the worsening rental market in other cities that has placed Canberra near top of the leaderboard.
