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End of national rental scheme to compound Tasmania’s housing crisis as unaffordability sweeps the state
Andrew Kemmell has spent the past few weeks packing his life into boxes.
Key points:
- Andrew Kemmell says the end of the National Rental Affordability Scheme means he has no choice but to live in a tent
- This week marks three years since an emergency housing summit was held in the wake of a state election dominated by stories of working families facing homelessness
- Housing unaffordability is becoming a more statewide problem
His children’s toys are the last items stacked into his storage unit.
The disability pensioner has a spinal injury from a workplace incident, but with nowhere else to go when he is evicted from his Claremont home, Mr Kemmell will become one of an increasing number of Tasmanians forced to sleep rough.
Mr Kemmell is also now…
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