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Canberra has been revealed as the worst place in Australia for low-income renters in a national survey by ‘Anglicare’. The snapshot looked at 49,000 private rentals across the country, advertised in the first week of April. The results show the ACT has no affordable housing in almost all categories.

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00:02Coming home is not something Jess Menes will ever take for granted after bouts of homelessness,
00:09including some nights when she was forced to sleep in a public toilet.
00:13It's scary. You obviously feel shame, but it is a roof and four walls around you.
00:20Ms Menes is now in stable housing, but at $1,024 a fortnight, her JobSeeker allowance barely covers the $1
00:29,000 she pays in rent.
00:32Anglicare says her story is a familiar one across the country.
00:36The private rental market isn't working. It's not delivering housing affordability.
00:41The latest snapshot showed just one rental nationwide was affordable for a person on JobSeeker.
00:48None at all were affordable for a person on a youth allowance.
00:52Less than 1% of private rentals were affordable for a single person on the age pension.
00:59And only 15% of private rentals are affordable for a couple both earning minimum wage.
01:06There is also pressure on social housing.
01:09So in South East Queensland there's over 50,000 people, which represents over 25,000 households or families,
01:16who are actually waiting for social housing.
01:18In the meantime, families live in substandard homes or in cars as Anglicare fights for change.
01:26The tax system of the discount to capital gains of 50% has been driving this now for over 25
01:33years.
01:34Anglicare is calling for that to be overhauled in the upcoming federal budget.
01:39Jess Menes says without change, homelessness can be just one step away for anyone.
01:46It sucks. No one should be homeless in 2026 in a developed nation.
01:51Yet people are homeless and children are homeless. It's awful.
01:56All eyes will now be on the budget.
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