Endurance Swimmer Chloe McCardel has highlighted the rental crisis facing many Sydney households after the swimming champion was told to evict her apartment when she argued against her rent increasing by $340 a week.
“I actually expected the increase to go up by about 300 dollars a week because that’s absolutely standard in the area in Zetland that I live in,” Ms McCardel told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi.
The property developer revoked Ms McCardel’s eviction notice following publicity from the Daily Telegraph, however, she said there are still a “lot of stressed-out renters” in the inner Sydney area. “They’re having to leave the suburb – move up to an hour away to get affordable accommodation,” she said.
“Particularly … young families, people with children having to move their childcare, and we know that’s really hard to get into childcare for a lot of families. “So I really feel that it is attacking social cohesion in areas like mine which are under a lot of high rental stress at the moment.”
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