Regional rent crisis drives businesses to the brink
Regional businesses are facing a multitude of challenges, with rental affordability issues leaving businesses without staff, while flatlining wages, rampant inflation and natural disasters only add to their woes.
Businesses throughout Western Australia's south west are desperately short of staff due to the rental affordability crisis. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
Across the country, the assault on regional rental affordability is fuelling homelessness, discouraging unskilled workers from the areas and driving businesses to the brink.
From Margaret River in Western Australia’s winegrowing southwest to the flooded plains of the eastern states, worker shortages brought about by a lack of affordable rental stock are hammering regional economies.
Steve Hughes, Director of the Grove Distillery in Wilyabrup
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