Uncle Len on the Homeless Question By Uncle Len, the Homeless Questionable
Sad to see so many people homeless, living in worse conditions than me this winter. I have my shed, and John Steele in Vic has his tent in the scrublands. Both of us are single and able to rough it, but tent and caravan living is hard on the kids. I imagine that the government in its wisdom will “solve” this crisis the way it puts out most fires, with accelerants, bringing in masses of migrants to keep the profits of Big Business up to the pre-Covid levels. These elites are happy to burn out this country, and the entire planet, and then move onto the next one.
“Adelaide’s caravan parks are being “inundated” with cries for help from desperate people who have been squeezed out of a tight rental market.
Long-stay onsite vans and cabins are full, overflowing into more expensive holiday parks that only accept short stays.
Some people struggling to rent a home are bringing their own vans, or pitching tents.
It comes as research reveals Adelaide’s rental vacancy rates are the lowest of all Australian capital cities, with stiff competition for a small number of properties while rents are increasing.
Highway 1 Caravan and Tourist Park on Port Wakefield Rd, Bolivar, typically fields 15 calls a day from would-be renters.
Sturt River Caravan Park, near Flinders University, said if it doubled its capacity by adding another 101 vans, it could “fill the place with renters” within a week.
Office manager Janine Seiboth said many of their existing residents were “struggling in the rental market” and park’s waiting list was growing.
“They come in hoping it will be for a few weeks, but it ends up being a few months, then six months, then a year,” she said.
“We get inundated with phone calls from the public, as well as agencies looking for accommodation for their clients.
Belair National Park Holiday Park manager Jenna Harris said she had to disappoint callers every day who falsely believed they offered long-term accommodation.
“We have to worry about the Residential Tenancies legislation, so we can’t offer a space of longer than 60 days unless we want to be a residential park,” she said.
“It’s a pretty big problem at the moment from the sounds of it, people can’t get rentals … I know that all caravan parks are in the same position.”
Adelaide’s rental vacancy rates fell to 0.3 per cent in May, the lowest of all capital cities.
That was down from 0.4 per cent in April and 0.7 per cent a year ago, according to data released on Wednesday by property firm SQM Research.
Adelaide’s total number of vacant rental properties in May was 710, down from 761 in April and 1316 a year ago. Compare that to 11,000 in Sydney or Melbourne, where vacancy rates are about 1.5 or 1.7 per cent respectively.
At the same time, Adelaide rents have risen by 18 per cent, to an average $520 a week for houses and $372 a week for units.
SQM Research managing director Louis Christopher said the national rental crisis continued unabated.”
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