The Rental Pressure Cooker
Dewi Cooke
the Age Saturday 3 April 2010.

They are among the state's fastest-growing suburbs and, boasting low house prices and high fertility rates, they buck some of the key demographic trends facing the rest of the country.

But Melbourne's outer fringes are not only home to young couples and families keen to secure an affordable foothold on a three-bedroom block of their own suburban idyll. They are also the places to which renters are increasingly turning in the hunt for cheap housing.

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