Eliza Owen, commercial research analyst at CoreLogic, has penned an interesting article in The Australian on the significant rise in group housing reported in the latest Census:
The 2016 census data reveals how people are dealing with unaffordable housing in the capital cities: a rapid increase in group households.
A group household is one that consists of two or more unrelated people, where all residents are 15 or over. The national increase in group households in the five years to 2016 was 10.5 per cent. This is lower than the previous census, which was 14.35 per cent, and coincided with rents rising over 38 per cent in the five years.
