A new Anglicare report has found 98 percent of rental housing is unaffordable, locking people working full-time on the minimum wage out of the rental market.
The Rental Affordability Snapshot report found only 2.2 percent of all rental listings across Australia are affordable for a single person earning the minimum wage, in a 0.7 per cent drop from 2018 and 2017, and a 3.1 per cent drop since 2016.
The peak body for working people said the reports’ findings showed the urgency of ending poverty wages and moving the minimum wage to a living wage that would allow working people to afford a decent and dignified life.