ACT's housing crisis snowballing

Canberra's housing affordability crisis is causing a ''human crisis'' that is ''snowballing'' among the city's poor, according to community groups. A Legislative Assembly Committee has been told of children sleeping in the family car while waiting to be housed and of public tenants living in fear of their neighbours while they wait to be transferred. Despite public housing stock growing to a 10-year high of nearly 12,000 units, there is a consensus that Canberra's notoriously tough private rental market is fuelling demand for public housing that exceeds supply by a ''significant margin''. Read More...