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Calls for another rent moratorium as availability reaches desperate levels

Simon Beaumont
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Welfare organisations are crying out for more to be done as the living spaces available to minimum-wage earners reach a record low of 0.2 per cent.

Across the entire state, there is not a single property – even a room – affordable to someone on Jobseeker or the Disability Pension.

Anglicare CEO Mark Glasson said there are multiple issues that need to be tackled in order to provide relief, including a moratorium on rental prices.

“There are 30,000 people on the waiting list right now. This problem is not going away,” Mr Glasson said.

Press PLAY to hear more about the dire struggle to provide housing

Simon Beaumont
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