Australia’s housing crisis has many faces. For some, it’s crippling rent. For others, it looks more like a mortgage cliff. Some have a roof over their head but no services, not even running water. Guardian Australia has been reporting on housing affordability issues for the better part of a decade. But now we wanted to find out how the many faces of this crisis were changing the daily lives of Australians, and we wanted to know: is it reshaping our communities in its image?
So we asked Guardian readers to tell us, and more than 160 of you replied. Here, 20 people share how the crisis has affected their daily lives.
