Parts of western Sydney are again over-represented in this group. In the Canterbury-Bankstown region, for example, 49 per cent of households with housing debt were paying more than 30 per cent of their income in debt servicing. This compared with about 29 per cent for the Australia-wide average.
BIS Review 49/2008  7  In examining why the problems of housing affordability are more severe in western Sydney than in other parts of Australia, a few key features stand out: •  First, the rise in house prices and the associated increase in turnover in this region came later than in the rest of Sydney, and the increase ended up being larger (Chart 11).