{
  "id": 20179534,
  "title": "The rental crisis is real. But don’t scapegoat the wrong cause.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/the-rental-crisis-is-real-but-dont-scapegoat-the-wrong-cause",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-15T13:01:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/11/the-rental-crisis-is-real-but-dont-scapegoat-the-wrong-cause/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Australian tenants have experienced torrid conditions since the pandemic, with advertised rents soaring by around 40% nationally over the past five years, according to Cotality. “Weekly rents have risen by about $200 over the past five years across the country”, noted Cotality research director Tim Lawless last month. “This has been a period of unprecedented The post The rental crisis is real.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}