00:01When you look at those kind of figures, and even people on the age pension, which is one
00:07of the more generous payments, 0.2 of a percent for a single person, and in that we include
00:14share houses, or even a married couple or a couple, sorry, would have found 0.5 of a percent
00:21affordable.
00:22And I turn that upside down, and that actually means that over 99 percent of the private
00:28rental market, on the weekend we surveyed it, was unaffordable for people on government
00:33benefits.
00:34If you are on the lowest 40 percent of income, so if you're on low incomes, and that really
00:39is government benefits and minimum wage, you should not be spending any more than 30 percent
00:44of that on your housing costs.
00:47We used to think, people used to think that regional areas were slightly more affordable.
00:54That's just not the case.
00:55We just don't find anywhere, and haven't for a couple of years.
00:58And I would also like to say, people on the minimum wage, so we also surveyed people who
01:04are a single person, full time, minimum wage, and that's the people that serve as our coffee,
01:10it's the security workers in the airport, it's agricultural workers, it's people that
01:15really keep us ticking over on that minimum wage.
01:18They would have found 0.5 of a percent affordability as well.
01:23It is less affordable in the big cities, obviously.
01:27It's also less affordable, rents tend to be more expensive around public transport hubs,
01:32which then gives us that extra grind for people who are on low incomes when fuel prices go
01:39up, because they're often using fuel more than some of us, more than some of us have
01:44the opportunity or choice to do so.
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