In Australia’s towns and cities, people are in rental stress*. Families, professionals, essential workers, students and creatives – millions of people – being forced from the hearts of our urban centres, denied a chance at community, and increasingly held back from living ‘sustainable’ lifestyles. So – what are we going to do?
This satirical, solutions-led impact documentary spends time with essential workers, artists, young families and students who all have one thing in
common – they rent! Unable to access what we’ve been told is the ‘Australian dream,’ they make up a third of households in Australian, are a growing cohort, and are a key to a sense of community. In its hybridized, comedy meets documentary style, THE RENTERS platforms the many solutions to this problem which lie at our fingertips, while asking which ones are going to work for Australia on the timeframe we need them to.
With an associated impact campaign highlighting solutions to one of the wicked problems of our time, The Renters aims to entertain, inform and activate.
With a team of award-winning journalists, doco makers, comedians and, ahem, *renters* behind it (Mark Humphries and Evan Williams (ABC, SBS), Bill Code (Al Jazeera, The Guardian), Craig Reucassel (War on Waste, The Chaser) Ange McCormack (The Monthly, JJJ), Justine Moyle (Tall Poppy), The Renters will either make you laugh, cry, or demand change. It might make you do all three!
