Some renters are having to move or turn down jobs owing to high rents.
Neysa Killeen now works in musical theatre after studying in Dublin. She had wanted to accept a job in a school in the city but said the wage did not cover the rent.
“That was the first time I had to turn down a good opportunity,” she said.
After moving to the north of England, she has faced similar pressures.
“I’ve been able to do fringe shows but now I’m looking at having to move to somewhere else because realistically I won’t be able to keep up with the rent, and that’s the second time this will have happened to me and I’m 26,” she said.
One mum, called Karen, contacted us through Your Voice, Your BBC News to explain how her son – a father himself – needed financial help from her and her husband.
Her son is a graduate with a good job, but needed their help because rent was so high. However, she said her own plans to retire meant it was not a sustainable solution.
Lucian Cook, head of residential research at estate agency Savills, said more parents were acting as guarantors when tenancies were agreed. He said the period of high rental growth meant it was inevitable that parents were helping to pay the rent on an informal basis too.
Aneisha Beveridge, from Hamptons, said that many young people had been leaving the family home much later in life in recent years because of rent rises.