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墨尔本房租创历史新高 租房危机更加恶化
据墨尔本大报《The Age》2月6日报道，据维州政府最新的租房报告数据显示，墨尔本租房危机正在日益恶化，如今墨尔本的房租中间价位已上升至每周$245元，创出历史新高纪录。
维州租客协会(TUV)表示，过去的五年里，墨尔本的房租上涨幅度几乎是同期通货膨胀率的一倍，正迫使低收入者远迁至工作机会较少、社区服务设施较差、交通不太方便的外环郊区。
请参考几个月前的一个帖子：
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Rental crisis getting worse
February 6, 2007 - 4:06PM
Melbourne's rental crisis is worsening with median rents at record levels, according to a tenants' group.
The increases were forcing low income earners to move to outer suburban areas where there were fewer jobs and community services as well as less public transport, the Tenants Union of Victoria (TUV) said.
The TUV said the median weekly rent in Melbourne had risen to $245 a week - the highest ever - while the figure for Victoria as a whole was $230.
The findings are contained in the Victorian government's latest Rent Report, based on figures from July to September, 2006.
The report found that despite inner Melbourne holding more than a fifth of rental properties, fewer than one per cent of those properties were affordable, putting them "off limits" to low income renters.
A property is deemed affordable if a renter spends no more than 30 per cent of their income on housing.
Single-person households were finding it most difficult to obtain affordable rental properties, according to the report.
The TUV said Melbourne rents had gone up at almost double the rate of inflation over the past five years.
The trend was forcing renters to choose whether to live in poverty or be forced to cheaper outer suburban or country areas.
"At minimum wage levels, both single-person households and couples with children do not meet the accepted affordability benchmark for anywhere in metropolitan Melbourne," TUV policy and liaison worker David Imber said.
Mr Imber said private renters - more than one in five Victorians - were struggling to live in areas traditionally deemed affordable.
"In metropolitan areas we're having people struggling to live in Clayton and Noble Park," he said.
"That's quite significant, where people are struggling to live in outer suburbs they've probably believed were affordable."
Mr Imber said some renters living in metropolitan Melbourne had given up spending on other services to just to be able to pay their rent.
"For those on a low and moderate income, that's pushing them into poverty," he said.
However, those looking to escape to country Victoria and find significantly lower rents would be disappointed.
Country Victoria has shown the greatest growth in real rents over the past five years with the median rent now $180 a week.
Rents in Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Warrnambool and Wodonga had risen significantly, following increases of almost 16 per cent in country Victoria over the past five years, Mr Imber said.
The Victorian and commonwealth governments had failed to provide incentives to developers to come up with low-cost, affordable housing and needed to urgently address the crisis, Mr Imber said.
The state government also needed to pour money into implementing its integrated housing framework policy, which aimed to minimise housing stress on low-income renters, he said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/na ... /1170524083467.html
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