Housing affordability crisis sees young Aussies threaten to leave the country

Australia’s soaring house prices and unaffordable rents threaten to make the country’s biggest export its own young people.

More than half of Australians aged between 18 to 35 would consider moving overseas for cheaper housing, new Home in Place research shows.

A further 16 per cent say they “definitely would.”

Home in Place group executive manager Martin Kennedy told NewsWire the number of young Australians looking to leave was “deeply concerning” but in the wake of soaring house prices not “a total shock”.

“What the data really says to me is that if we are not careful our biggest export could be our young people,” he said.

“At what point will young people say this is all too hard, what is the point of going to university, racking up tens of thousands of dollars of student debt if th