I'm share housing with a family member that works full time and we split the bills half half, everyone of them.
Because I'm far out from the shops etc I gotta do my shopping online... but I wouldn't trade it, nice built up estate with friendly neighbors and its not rough
and the rent I'm paying is about the same I would for a housing commission joint.
That's what you want scrub. Half the battle of living off the dsp is finding somewhere cheap and affordable to rent. A housing commission joint is rent controlled at 20% of your centrelink pension.
I notice scrub your post is from march 2015, Are you still living in your NRAS rental??
i found this article that says a lot of the government incentives for investors to offer NRAS rentals is starting to end.
www.thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/residential-2/end-of-nras-means-even-less-affordable-housing/ Can anyone tell me is the community housing group called port Phillip housing in Melbourne but now known as
housingfirst.org.au/ , a NRAS type landlord?
According to their website this housing group are a leading Melbourne community housing provider that was first started in St Kilda back in 1970s hence the name port Phillip housing but now this community housing provider operates across Melbourne not just in the inner bay-side suburbs.
I have a good friend from the pub who has had two private rentals through housingfirst in Melbourne, one in Parkville at the former Commonwealth games athlete village site and one now in Essendon in a mixed public/private rental apartment block and my mate seems pretty happy renting with them, i mean he is on the dsp and he gets by alright. Everyone complains how hard it is to live off the centrelink pension but my mate doesn't seem to be doing it too tough money wise but he is on state trustee's who help manage his money however i don't see any visible signs of rental stress like some of the other centrelink guys i know who live in rooming houses and pay like 40% of their centrelink pension on rent or worse yet i know a poor bloke who can't get a job but can't get the dsp who lives off newstart and pays like 60% to 70% of his newstart on his rooming house room and he needs to go to charities everyday to get free bread and pasta to eat.