It’s getting harder than ever to find a home in Australia with less than 1% of rental properties available for occupancy. That’s sending rents soaring to eye-watering levels, deepening a cost-of-living crunch.

The population growth of Greater Sydney is also exacerbating its lack of housing supply. Here’s how the housing market’s “vicious spiral” is dragging the country into a deeper crisis. Bloomberg's Kurumi Mori reports.

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