Essential workers priced out of rental market

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For Lease signs are seen outside a block of units in inner Sydney. Source: AAP / MICK TSIKAS

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A new report has found essential workers are being priced out of the rental market across Australia, with many spending at least two-thirds of their income on rent. Those behind the report, the Everybody's Home coalition, are calling on the federal government to build 20,000 social and affordable houses a year, to overcome a shortfall of 640,000 dwellings.

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