This report, written with National Shelter, shows that the federal government's rent assistance program is failing to prevent around 330,000 low income people and families being crushed by high rents in the private rental market. Analysing data on the almost one million age pensioners, people with disabilities, sole parents, unemployed people and students who receive rent assistance, it finds that more than one in three - around 330,360 people -exceed the government's own conservative measure of housing affordability by spending more than 30% of their income on rent. Thr report proposes a number of reforms. (RTF document)