A Tasmanian mother and her four children have struggled to find a rental in the state's tight market, and the family has been listed on the social housing waitlist for two years.
Anisha Wolf has become a priority applicant on Tasmania's social housing waitlistThe north-west has the tightest rental market in the state
Since leaving her private rental in October after the owner decided to sell, she said she'd applied for about 20 other rentals, but has been knocked back each time. Tasmania's rental vacancy rates remain low, particularly in the north-west city of Burnie, which has the tightest market in the state — just 0.4 per cent of rentals were available in February, according to the state government's housing dashboard.Ms Wolf is one of more than 4,500 Tasmanians on the housing register, and Braddon Labor MP Anita Dow said it was "not good enough".
"This government has had nearly a decade to address the issues with housing, and they've announced a lot but delivered very little," she said.
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