Q. Do you think housing in your area is affordable or unaffordable for someone on an average income?
| Support by party preference | Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Capital Cities | Regional | NSW | VIC | June 2015 | |
| Affordable | 25% | 27% | 26% | 23% | 24% | 21% | 32% | 17% | 27% | 33% | |
| Unaffordable | 66% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 63% | 72% | 56% | 76% | 68% | 60% | |
| Don’t know | 9% | 6% | 7% | 10% | 12% | 7% | 12% | 7% | 5% | 7% |
25% thought that housing in their area is affordable for someone on an average income (down 8% since June 2015), and 66% thought it is unaffordable (up 6%).
Those most likely to think housing was unaffordable were those from NSW (76%), those aged 45-54 (75%) and 55-64 (73%), and those earning less than $31k per year (72%).
Those most likely to think housing is affordable were South Australians (36%) and Queenslanders (30%).
There was little difference between Labor, Liberal/National and Greens voters on this question.