The 2022 rental affordability snapshot - drawing upon real estate listings in late March - found there were almost no affordable rental properties for Tasmanians on the age or disability pension, or JobSeeker, while people on the minimum wage also face extremely limited options for housing.

Anglicare found the only way families could realistically afford adequate housing was if both parents were earning the full-time minimum wage, although this also only left 70 properties listed in Tasmania's larger centres.

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The number of rental listings increased slightly in the North and North-West however compared with 12 months earlier, compared with a significant decline over the past decade.

The organisation also shared stories via its housing workers, including one instance where a landlord was likely to evict a father once the National Rental Affordability Scheme ends. This would mean he could no longer have his daughter stay on weekends.

Another story highlighted a man in Launceston with a disability whose landlord had refused to install safety rails in the bathroom. He pays 60 per cent of his income in rent, but could not find any cheaper housing.

Anglicare urged the government to use its upcoming Housing Strategy - due for release in October - to provide greater protections for tenants including that they cannot be evicted into homelessness, and are not discriminated against based on parenthood, pets or unemployment.

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Other recommendations included ensuring all housing policies have a positive impact on the supply of affordable rentals.

"There are a few things that we know will improve the welfare of Tasmanians living in private rentals," the report reads.

"They are: addressing the outflow of rental properties into short-stay and student accommodation; ending unfair discrimination by landlords against tenants they view as less desirable; and increasing income available to people reliant on Centrelink benefits."

The report acknowledged the government's increased social housing target, including 6500 further dwellings by 2032.

Housing Minister Guy Barnett said that, in March, 78 new social housing dwellings were completed and 45 new blocks of land were made available.

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He said the creation of new statutory authority Housing Tasmania would help to increase housing supply, while other programs - such as ancillary dwellings grants program, housing market entry program and first home owner grants - were intended to put downward pressure on rent.

Labor housing spokesperson Ella Haddad said the Anglicare report showed the outcomes of inaction on housing policy over a long period.

"They must start looking seriously at more alternatives to provide affordable housing to Tasmanians," she said.

Ms Haddad said greater regulation of short-stay accommodation, including a pause on new whole-of-dwelling permits, would provide immediate relief.

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