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Australia’s rental crisis reaches new heights: 2024 Rental Affordability Index

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Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

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Reflecting on a year of impact

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SGS strengthens client offering with team promotions

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We are pleased to announce five team members have been promoted for their significant contribution to the business and their positive impact on the broader community: Yuan Deng, Ellen Witte, Andrew Spencer, Sean Williams, and Kishan Ratnam.

SGS Economics and Planning Growing risk from natural perils

At what cost? Mapping where natural perils impact on economic growth and communities

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Australia is increasingly at risk of a range of natural disasters including tropical cyclones, bushfires, storms and floods. If unmanaged, these risks will significantly impact our resource and knowledge-led economy, and damaged homes, businesses and infrastructure and put lives at risk.

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Should social and affordable housing be treated as economic infrastructure?

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Housing

This is more than a rhetorical question. Seeing social and affordable housing as economic infrastructure places this issue in the realm of growing the national income pie. Meanwhile, if we see providing social and affordable housing as a welfare program its implied validation rests on redistribution – sharing the pie.

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Rental Affordability Index - November 2018 results available now

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Housing

The latest research into rental affordability across Australia shows that Hobart is still the least affordable capital city to rent, with even moderate-income working households paying 30 per cent of their income to rent a home.

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Single parents renting in Melbourne ‘a hair’s breadth away from homelessness’

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Unaffordability is steadily spreading “like an oil stain” to middle and outer suburbs, according to SGS Economics and Planning partner and index author Ellen Witte. According to the latest rental affordability index, even a typical Melbourne household pocketing almost $90,000 in income would struggle to find an affordable family home to rent within 15 kilometres of the city centre. The index – which tracks rental affordability using census data on household incomes and rental bond information lodged with government departments – found the median rental household in greater Melbourne earned $88,400 each year.

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Sydney still critically unaffordable for large proportion of renters

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The cost of renting in Sydney has improved but many tenants still struggle to make ends meet, new analysis shows. A biannual report on rental stress reveals a marginal improvement in affordability, but the gains have made little difference for low-income households. The average rental household in Greater Sydney put 27 per cent of their income towards rent in the June quarter, the latest Rental Affordability Index, by National Shelter, Community Sector Banking, SGS Economics & Planning and the Brotherhood of St Laurence, released on Thursday shows.

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