Housing is so unaffordable that some are forced to share a home with more people than there are beds.
A new study into share-room housing has found that some people are sharing rooms that contain multiple beds, and each bed may have several occupants who sleep in shifts. This practice, known as hot bedding, brings considerable health and safety risks.
Some tenants are international students or those working on temporary migrant visas, raising concerns about how aware tenants are of their rights, and how they can get help if they're evicted, assaulted or faced with rent rises.
Guests:
Dr Zahra Nasreen, housing researcher at Sydney University's School of Architecture, Design and Planning, author of a study on the risks of people sharing bedrooms in Sydney.
Professor Alan Morris, Professor at the UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance, lead chief investigator of a survey of international students about their housing and other stressors
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People are sharing rooms. and sometimes beds, with occupants sleeping in shifts across the day.