This September, Melanie Misuraca and her daughters will swallow their third rent hike in as many years. It will push their rent up to 54 per cent of their household income before tax.
The family were forced to move in 2022, after the COVID public health emergency ended. They managed to stay on Queensland’s Gold Coast but now pay nearly double for a smaller home — and the rent just keeps creeping up.
An ABC analysis of exclusive figures compiled by SGS Economics and Planning, and National Shelter has revealed the nation’s worst places to rent, as well as the neighbourhoods hit with the biggest rent hikes since the pandemic.
