It comes as a senior government source with knowledge of the discussions told The Age that limiting landlords to one rent increase every two years was being considered.
Architect Michi Moses, 31, lives in what has been found to be one of the coldest homes in Australia. She's joining a call for regulations around heating in rentals.
Tuesday's Queensland budget will include $320 million to build an additional 500 social and affordable homes by mid-2025, the premier has revealed, amid the state's deepening housing crisis.
A city council is set to launch an emergency fund for locals unable to pay their rent amid the cost of living crisis - and a tax on Airbnbs could help fund it.
Australia's $2.2 trillion economy is sitting on a knife edge with a 50-50 chance of tipping into recession in the next 12 months, says a leading economist.
New data has revealed the suburbs around Australia that have undergone the biggest median weekly rent increases for houses in the 12 months to April this year.
Less than one per cent of available rental properties across the country are affordable for a person working on a minimum wage, a "shocking" new report has revealed.
39-year-old Alistair Turner has resorted to living in a caravan with his family in his parent's front yard to avoid homelessness, after applying to over 175 rental properties.
The fibro home on David Street in Greenacre is three bedrooms and two bathrooms but it is in urgent need of repair, with the landlord promising to offset spending.
Housing affordability has become a major issue for Australians, but countries across the globe have also been faced with it. This is how some of them have responded.
With rental vacancies across the county dipping to just 1.47 per cent, and conditions showing no sign of slowing down, it's tough out there to be a renter right now.
After 12 months of turbocharged rental increases, a new report has warned that millions of tenants across Australia will endure even more pain this year.
In the suburb where Shane Channing lives, rental prices have increased by 60 per cent over the past five years. He says one more increase will leave him homeless.
People should be able to choose whether or not they want to include a parking space in their rental price, experts say after finding that $6 billion worth of off-road parking was going unused.
Vulnerable Western Australians are being robbed of thousands of dollars while looking for new homes as opportunistic scammers prey on the rental crisis.