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The rent crisis is set to spread: here's the case for doubling rent assistance

  • Written by Bruce Bradbury, Associate Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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For many Australians, the rent crisis is just starting. Advertised rents have been soaring, but mainly for new rentals – so called “asking rents”.

The broadest measure of rents actually paid – the rents on the 480,000 or so capital city properties the Bureau of Statistics uses to calculate the consumer price...

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