Middle income earners priced out of inner-city rental market
05/04/2018
By Rachel Baxendale, The Australian.
Single mother of two Sally Delaney is a senior nurse at an inner-city hospital in Sydney, earning a wage that would once have provided a comfortable living for her and her teenage children.
Sydney’s rental market has left the 56-year-old spending almost half her weekly income on rent for a small, two-bedroom apartment in Sydney’s inner west.
A coalition of housing and homelessness peak bodies has joined forces to launch the Everybody’s Home campaign, highlighting the reality that low and even middle-income earners are increasingly unable to afford to live near their workplaces in the larger capital cities, particularly Sydney and Melbourne.