Priced Out: An Index of Affordable Rentals for Australia’s Essential Workers
Priced Out: An Index of Affordable Rentals for Australia’s Essential Workers offers proposals to make renting more secure and more affordable.
Produced by Everybody’s Home, a national campaign to fix the housing crisis the report calls for major reform of our tax and policy settings. And most importantly, it outlines strategies to end the undersupply of social and affordable housing.
Methodology
This analysis was developed by comparing data on rents against award wages for fifteen essential worker categories.
- Aged care worker
- Ambulance officer
- Childcare worker
- Cleaner
- Construction worker
- Delivery driver
- Dispatcher
- Firefighter
- Freight driver
- Hospitality worker
- Meat packer
- Nurse
- Postal worker
- Retail worker
- School teacher
Findings
The findings help explain why so many essential industries are facing workforce shortages. Put simply, workers have been priced out of their communities. Many cannot afford to move to parts of the country where these shortages are at their worst, while others, such as those in aged care, are leaving the profession altogether in favour of higher paid work. This is placing unprecedented pressure on employers, who have had responsibility for the housing crisis outsourced onto them.
The Report
Priced Out: An Index of Affordable Rentals for Australia’s Essential Workers is available to be read.
