National Welfare Rights Network
The impact of Rent Assistance on housing affordability for low-income renters: Australia
Rent Assistance has failed to keep up with surging rental costs.
Increases to Age and Disability Support Pension payments, since a one-off increase in 2009 of $32 per week, have helped reduce the numbers of these pensioners paying more than half of their income in rent.
2014
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