Rental crisis: Nurses, teachers priced out of 99pc of homes

Nurses, teachers, cleaners and aged care workers are now being priced out of 99 per cent of rental properties across the country, alarming new research reveals. A new Anglicare Australia report, released Thursday, has exposed the worsening rental affordability crisis facing full-time essential workers, with even those receiving significant pay rises struggling to keep up with soaring housing costs. Essential workers such as nurses are now priced out of 99 per cent of rental properties across the country. Picture: iStock. The organisation’s Rental Affordability Snapshot: Essential Workers Snapshot analysed 48,776 rental listings nationwide, testing affordability across 16 essential occupations. It found 10 of those occupations could afford fewer than one per cent of available properties. Hospitality workers were among the hardest hit, with just 0.7 per cent of listings considered affordable, followed by cleaners at 0.8 per cent and retail workers at 0.9 per cent. Nurses could afford just 1.1 per cent of rental properties, while aged care workers had access to only 1.7 per cent. Even teachers and firefighters fared little better with just 3.3 per cent and 2.7 per cent of properties r...