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In low-rent outer suburbs, almost one in six households could not afford to keep their house cool and went without meals. ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock

Private renters are doing it tough in outer suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne

Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney; Hal Pawson, UNSW ; Kath Hulse, Swinburne University of Technology, and Violet Xia, University of Technology Sydney

While politicians ignore calls to raise Newstart, alarming levels of financial stress among private renters, particularly in low-rent outer suburbs, show why current welfare payments are too low.

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