SYDNEY - In the middle of 2022, Ms Bailey Riley, a 23-year-old university student, signed an eight-month lease on a small home in inner-city Sydney and moved in with two housemates.
But, in what has become an increasingly familiar experience for tenants across the city, she and her housemates received an e-mail in January from the real estate agent, who notified them that their rent would be increasing.
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