Tiny and alternate houses can help ease Australia's rental affordability crisis
- Written by Heather Shearer, Research Fellow, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University

Rental housing in Australia is less affordable than ever before. It is no exaggeration to call the situation a crisis, with vacancy rates at record lows.
But there are some relatively simple, easy-to-implement and cost-effective things that can be done to ease rental affordability pressures.
These include relaxing planning restrictions...