A 71-year-old woman living with a broken shower and faulty heating was evicted from her home of 11 years after asking for basic repairs, and an 82-year-old woman was forced into a nursing home when her husband died due to a $638 rent increase.
These were among the horrific calls for help made to a Victorian advocacy group, with the details shared during an inquiry into the state’s housing crisis.more and more older people will die this summer due“We will be seeing a lot of older people in their 80s and 90s dying from heatwaves due to poor quality housing,” Ms York said.
Rental prices have risen nationally by 10.2 per cent in the last year, while vacancy rates for rentals are at about 1.3 per cent. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Luis Ascui The government says about 30,000 new social and affordable rental homes will built over the next five years, under the $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund.
Victorian Public Tenants Association chief Katelyn Butters said timelines were critical due to the hundreds of thousands of people “desperately” waiting for access to social housing. Amid wider cost of living pressures, rental inflation has been a growing concern for nearly two million renters in Victoria. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Luis AscuiThe inquiry also heard serious concerns about rental agents and landlords forcing renters to use digital platforms that collect excessive amounts of personal data.
According to the Real Estate Institute of Australia about two-thirds of real estate agents do not have to comply with the Privacy Act due a small business exemption.
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