Supermarket worker Callum Sanderson, 21, spends more than half of his take-home pay on rent.
Recent increases mean he and a flatmate must cough up £750 a month for a “very average” two bed flat in Glasgow's Merchant City that was rented for less than half that sum in 2014.
He said: “We’ve had issues with the shower and boiler and it has been a struggle to get things fixed.
“On one occasion the landlord tried to force us to pay the call-out charge for a repair that was down to an old appliance.
You just get the feeling that things are so out of control that you don’t know where you’ll end up next year when the tenancy agreement runs out.”
Callum, who is taking a year out of a law degree, said he feels lucky that he does not have a family to support.
He said: “I feel under a lot of pressure but I know of families who are living with the daily threat of ending up on the street because they can’t afford the rent. It can be crushing.”
He said he and his flatmate have paid in £20,000 over the past two years - more than it would cost for a mortgage if they could have afforded to buy the property.
He said: “The problems is that people on low wages are priced out of buying, so you are stuck with renting a place at sky high rates. It needs to be sorted out.”
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