Tracking the rise of room sharing and overcrowding, and what it means for housing in Australia
- Written by Zahra Nasreen, PhD Scholar in Planning and Geography, Macquarie University
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The proportion of households experiencing rental stress is on the rise across Australia’s major cities. High rental prices have been driving an increase in shared housing. The most extreme form of this is “shared room” housing – where...