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Essential workers in Australia can afford less than 3% of rentals, with nurses and hospitality staff facing extreme unaffordability.
Essential workers across Australia, including nurses, teachers, aged care, childcare, and hospitality staff, are struggling to afford housing, with a new Anglicare Australia report revealing that most can afford less than 3% of available rentals.
Nurses could afford just 1.5%, and childcare or hospitality workers only 0.8% of listings nationwide.
In regions like the ACT, no rentals were affordable for hospitality workers, while other areas had only a few options.
The crisis, driven by decades of underinvestment in public housing and tax breaks for investors, forces workers to live far from jobs or in unsafe conditions, threatening health, education, and emergency services.
Experts urge urgent government action, including public housing expansion, tax reforms, and stronger tenant protections to ensure essential workers can live near the communities they serve.
Los trabajadores esenciales en Australia pueden pagar menos del 3% de los alquileres, y las enfermeras y el personal de hospitalidad se enfrentan a una inasequibilidad extrema.