Boosting Rent Assistance as we propose would give pensioners more and better housing choices

Share of rental homes affordable for age pensioner household, under current payments and under our proposed increases

Based on a household receiving the full rate of the Age Pension and Rent Assistance. Non-housing costs are assumed to be $379 per week for singles and $606 per week for couples. Rental homes exclude non-market tenancies and dwellings rented other than from real-estate agents. Rents are inflated to June 2024 using CPI rents. Assumes no pass-through from Rent Assistance increases to rents paid in the broader rental market.
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