30/05/2023
The latest research from CoreLogic shows that rental affordability has dropped to its lowest level in a decade.
The numbers show that rental affordability – the portion of income required to service a new lease – is at its highest level nationally since June 2014, with 30.8 per cent of an average income required to service a new lease.
ANZ senior economist Felicity Emmett said “for someone to be [spending] 50 per cent of their income on their rent means that there’s very little left over for anything else.
“It actually means these people on the 25th income percentile will really struggle to pay their rent and are likely to be forced to either live with more people and share the costs around, or perhaps try and seek out government supported housing, and some might have to turn to homelessness provisions.
“Paired with a decline in social housing, rental demand pressures are being felt in all income brackets.”