An orange picker says he only learnt of Australia's rental crisis after arriving in the Victorian town of Mildura. It comes as a landlord reluctantly hikes rents to cover his increasing mortgage.
abc.net.au/news/housing-crisis-tightens-regional-victoria/102468438Orange picker Christiaan Sprangemeijer says finding affordable accommodation is a struggle as he pays $160 per week for a single bed in a room that also houses two strangers.
The working holiday-maker from the Netherlands was thrust directly into the crux of a housing crisis when he moved to the Murray River city of Mildura this year. Mr Sprangemeijer, 29, said he was desperately saving his minimum wage to upgrade to a room at the Merbein Hotel, to the north-west of Mildura."There's no closet. There's nothing. There's just three beds in there."I know people in Sydney that pay $200 a week and they have their own room in a house," he said.
Mr Sprangemeijer was shocked so many residents were similarly struggling to access affordable housing.Data from the 2021 Census showed 348 people were reported homeless in the Mildura municipality and 1,856 residents were awaiting social housing.A PropTrack Market Insight Report showed regional Victorian rents were up 5 per cent quarter-on-quarter to sit at $420, the fastest rate of quarterly rent growth since before the coronavirus pandemic.
Rents were up 7.7 per cent in regional Victoria over the year, followed by recent reports of further rent hikes due toThe pandemic ruptured supply and demand of rental accommodation, leading to the worst level of rental affordability in nearly a decade, according to the ANZ CoreLogic Housing Affordability Report.
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