It took Mariah* six months to find her first rental in western Sydney.
- Stephanie Convery
- The Guardian
An asylum seeker from a west African nation, she arrived in Australia in 2018 and has been living in the community on a bridging visa ever since.
Initially boarding with a family, she got a job and struck out with a friend, only to discover that the rental market wanted nothing to do with her.
“Every real estate agent we applied to said: ‘You are asylum seekers, you don’t have a permanent residency, you…