Sydney rental crisis: Only 1 per cent of properties affordable for essential workers, Anglicare report finds

Sydney’s rental crisis is now so stark that only 1 per cent of properties would be classed as affordable for essential workers, with no affordable rentals available on the northern beaches or Sutherland for teachers, aged care workers or hospitality staff.

The findings of new research from Anglicare Sydney will heap more pressure on the Minns government to deliver substantially more housing for the state’s key workers, who are often on low wages and pushed out to fringe suburbs and forced to commute long distances to work.

Aged care worker Craig Jackson is one of an increasing number of essential workers who cannot afford to rent anywhere near their workplace. Credit: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Anglicare Sydney’s annual Rental Affordability Snapshot report reviewed 17,028 rental listings