Rental Affordability Snapshot Tasmania 2018

The Rental Affordability Snapshot is an annual look at the extent to which residential properties in Tasmania are affordable and appropriate for people living on low incomes. On one weekend in March 2018, SARC collected information on all the properties advertised as available for rent across the state and worked out whether people on government income support payments and people on the minimum wage could afford to find suitable accommodation for themselves and their families without putting themselves in rental stress. We found that people on Youth Allowance, Newstart Allowance or single parents on Parenting Payments were completely locked out of the private rental market, and even households earning a minimum wage had only a small pool of rental homes that could be considered affordable.