ANALYSIS: Could you live on less than $7 a day? For some Australian renters, it's the norm
Another worrying aspect of the data is it suggests high rents are compelling people on Newstart payments to relocate from inner cities to the outer suburbs and satellite towns with worse labour markets and higher transport costs.Victorian regional cities like Bendigo and BallaratHere they would be paying $130 a week — almost half their Newstart payments. With Rent Assistance, that would leave them with $192 — still $24 less than the healthy benchmark.
There are only two regions in all of Australia where single unemployed people would have any hope of meeting rents.
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