Rental Affordability Index Archives - Shelter (National) https://shelter.org.au/category/publications/rental-affordability-index/ Housing: a basic human right Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:50:40 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://shelter.org.au/wp-content/uploads/favicon-72-50x50.jpg Rental Affordability Index Archives - Shelter (National) https://shelter.org.au/category/publications/rental-affordability-index/ 32 32 Housing at the Edge: Retiring Australians in the Private Rental Market https://shelter.org.au/housing-at-the-edge-retiring-australians-in-the-private-rental-market/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:50:40 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7579 Australia is undergoing a profound and accelerating transformation in its housing system, reshaping long-standing assumptions about security, stability, and access to appropriate housing across the life course. Increasingly, older people in Australia are entering retirement without home ownership, marking a significant departure from historic norms, and exposing a growing cohort to housing insecurity in a

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2025 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-november-2025/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:14:56 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7421 The annual Rental Affordability Index (RAI) report is an easy-to-understand indicator of rental affordability relative to household incomes. Since its establishment in 2015, it has become a crucial tool for policymakers. It helps track rental affordability trends and informs evidence-based policy decisions – highlighting nuances between places and the experiences of disadvantaged households.  Background Studies

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2024 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-november-2024/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:49:06 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=7367 SGS Economics and Planning is proud to release the tenth edition of the Rental Affordability Index (RAI), marking a decade of tracking rental trends and challenges across Australia. Since the first RAI in 2015, rental affordability has declined in most cities, limiting where people can live and work and reshaping communities nationwide. Once affordable areas

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2022 https://shelter.org.au/6565-2/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:32:46 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6565 Read the full Rental Affordability Index for November 2022 here. Access the interactive dashboard here.

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]]> Enews: Rental affordability for low-income households falls back to pre-pandemic levels https://shelter.org.au/enews-rai/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:51:00 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6407 In the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index, low and moderate-income Australian households are still facing moderate to extreme rental stress nationwide. Click here to view the enews, access the interactive map and read the report.

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]]> Rental Affordability Index December 2020 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-december-2020/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:36:19 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6268 Read the full Rental Affordability Index for December 2020 here.

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2019 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-november-2019/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:01:08 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6090 Read the full Rental Affordability Index for November 2019 here. 

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]]> Rental Affordability Index November 2017 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-november-2017/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:51:03 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6084 Read the full report for the National Rental Affordability Index for November 2017. 

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]]> Rental Affordability Index May 2017 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-may-2017/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:49:49 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6080 Read the full report for the National Rental Affordability Index for May 2017. 

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]]> Rental Affordability Index – November 2018 https://shelter.org.au/rental-affordability-index-may-2018/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 23:47:56 +0000 https://shelter.org.au/?p=6021 Hobart Australia’s most unaffordable city for renters; Across the nation singles, pensioners and families on low incomes are struggling Hobart has jumped further ahead of Sydney as the least affordable city to rent in Australia, the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index (RAI) has found. Even households on average incomes in Hobart are now

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