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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

‘They miss out’: soaring rents and insufficient support force more uni students in Australia to live with parents

Illustration of people lining up to inspect houses
Student share houses have been a rite of passage for decades, but amid a rental crisis the number of young people living with their parents while studying has risen. Illustration: Victoria Hart/Guardian Design/Getty Images

When Amelia Grace Wilson-Williams started her university degree, she didn’t imagine it would be spent bunkering down in the family home.

But when the undergrad law student at the University of Technology in Sydney began hunting for rental properties in which to live alone or share with fellow students, she realised it was impossible while studying full time and only relying on her student Centrelink payments.

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