Are you being squeezed out by ridiculously high rents?
Tired of waiting for disinterested governments to come to your assistance?
Fed up with sleeping in parks/bus shelters/friends’ lounge room floors?
Take matters into your own hands — Go squat!
Despite government policies aimed at promoting ‘affordable’ housing, it’s clear that
the number of low-income people able to afford housing is rapidly decreasing.
The cost of private rental accommodation is increasing exponentially, pushing many
low-income earners away from the areas in which they and their friends live.
The private rental market is largely deregulated and tenancy laws afford low-income
earners little protection from the increasingly exorbitant rents demanded by landowners
and their real estate agents. It’s profit margins that count
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