Based on the average cost of rentals in capital cities, the report found full-time workers on the lowest award wage would be left with around $20 a day after paying rent.
The report found nurses, cleaners, aged care and postal workers were among those hit hardest by the rental crisis.In NSW and Victoria there were no affordable regions for essential workers earning award wages.
This amounts to 37 days worth of wages every year, but child care, hospitality and meat packing workers are losing at least 40 days worth.Living in a basement with no windows. Life in a 12-person share house during Australia’s rental crisis Meat packers and hospitality staff in capital cities are spending more than 80 per cent of their earnings just on rent.
"Our tax system is rigged against renters, driving up the cost of rent for millions of Australians and on top of that a huge shortfall of social homes for people who can't afford rent."'The whole building was evicted': The impact of short-term lets on Australia’s rental crisis
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