OZschwitz: Skipping meals to pay rent

Subject: OZschwitz: Skipping meals to pay rent Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:11 pm

RISING rents are forcing thousands of people to skip meals and admit they are too poor to send their children on school excursions, new figures reveal.

Housing experts warned yesterday that the home affordability crisis threatens to destabilise the economy and drive the country into recession.

And Labor says the Howard government knew more than two years ago that one-third of renters were suffering from rental stress but failed to acknowledge the problem.

Research by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, based on surveys and interviews with 1400 renter households and 400 recent home buyers, found that 26 per cent of low-income renters surveyed sometimes go without food and 42 per cent of low-income renters cannot afford school excursions. As many of 72 per cent of all renters surveyed worry constantly about finances.

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Subject: Re: OZschwitz: Skipping meals to pay rent Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:11 pm

That convict slave pen... still the unlucky country...

OZschwitz: Skipping meals to pay rent

OZschwitz: Skipping meals to pay rent

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