Millions of essential workers are at risk of being squeezed out of Australia's rental market without vital housing reforms, a new report argues.

Hospitality workers earning the average wage for the job would only be able to afford 0.8 per cent of rentals on the market, according to data from the Rental Affordability Snapshot .

Only 80 rentals in Victoria were affordable under the average salary of a hospitality worker, and none in the ACT.

The report, which analysed the price of over 51,000 rentals compared to the average wages of several occupations in Australia, also found that firefighters could only afford 3.2 per cent of rentals around Australia, and paramedics, on average, are only able to afford 2.3 per cent, or 1117 properties.

"It is a national disgrace that the people w

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