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flag Essential workers in Australia can afford less than 3% of rentals, with nurses and hospitality staff facing extreme unaffordability.

flag 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. flag Nurses could afford just 1.5%, and childcare or hospitality workers only 0.8% of listings nationwide. flag In regions like the ACT, no rentals were affordable for hospitality workers, while other areas had only a few options. flag 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. flag 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.

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