Home truths: renters' stories from the Australian housing crisis.

Issues With Heating and Cooling

We are freezing in winter, baking in summer, there’s significant mold in the bathroom and laundry, damp spots all through the house, several cracked windows, all…

My Experience With we had…

we had an investor buy our property during covid and our property manager changed therefore i was unable to pay rent using direct transfer from my account (as i…

Barely able to pay for my life.

I now work full-time but I’m paying over 60% of my income in rent. My health is suffering because I can’t afford to eat healthily. Every time I open my fridge, I…

Issues With Heating and Cooling

no fixed heating in the house. We use gas heaters which are expensive to run. During really cold days, we heat the small space that we are occupying. It makes me…

The Time When we’re paying…

we’re paying $500/week for a house that was marketed as 4 bedroom but the 4th bedroom literally just has a door knocked in it, and is too small to even fit a…

Living Through Landlord increased our…

Landlord increased our rent twice in a 6 month period – once after the interest rate increases started (a $30 p/w increase) and then again 4 months later (a $40…

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These aren't just assets, they're our homes.

In rental properties across Australia, real people are experiencing life's biggest moments — birthdays, breakups, new jobs, lockdowns, first kisses, last goodbyes.

When politicians talk about housing, they can't cut renters out of the conversation. 1 in 3 of us rent: this is what the housing crisis looks like for us.