‘Relentless crisis’: Mumfluencer Constance Hall opens home to family in need

An Australian influencer and businesswoman has opened her home to family in need amid the ‘relentless’ housing crisis.

A Perth businesswoman and mum with more than a million online followers has revealed the effects the housing crisis is having on her own family.

‘Mumfluencer’ Constance Hall has amassed 1.3m Facebook followers and 370,000 on Instagram, sharing stories about her children, partner, and selling clothes and underwear.

She shared on Facebook on Monday her extended family has moved into her home alongside her husband Denim and kids.

Perth businesswoman and influencer Constance Hall with her partner. Picture: Facebook

“Due to the relentless housing crisis Denz and I received the welcomed surprise of my cousin and her family in need of somewhere to stay,” Ms Hall wrote.

“Someone once said to me ‘while there is a roof over my head there is a roof over yours’. It was a really kind thing to say and I never forgot it.

“I can only hope that our home turns the lemons of life into lemonade for those who need it for the rest of our lives,” she posted.

WA shares a dubious honour with the Northern Territory; the only Australian states and territories where tenants can be evicted for no reason. Picture: NewsWire / Sharon Smith

The post goes on to detail some handiwork done by Ms Hall’s partner to create more space for the growing family.

“We had this old wagon sitting in the dirt driveway that I use as an office, and it just didn’t feel homely enough for a bedroom. A week ago, I told Denz that I figured out that the problem is that it’s just sitting there in the dirt, your feet get dirty and wet when you go into it, it has no electricity, etc., and it’s cold, etc.

“So within the week, he has moved the wagon around (with the help of my cousin’s partner) and reshaped the deck to make it fit in and sit on the side of the house. I’ve done what I love to do and redecorated it.

“And now everyone’s fighting over it.”

The post sparked comments about the kindness shown to the family in need, and the eclectic home.

During the weekend Ms Hall shared with her 1.3m Facebook followers that with life and business expenses, she had to borrow this month’s mortgage repayment from her brothers.

The isolated capital of Western Australia is no isolated case in the housing crunch.

This week, Anglicare WA chief executive Mark Glasson said people were waiting an average of 18 months on priority accommodation waitlists.

Commonwealth Bank’s latest quarterly economic report shows WA’s unemployment is lowest in the country, as the population has grown 3.3 per cent this year.

But that is underscored by the lowest rental vacancy rate in the country, of 0.4 per cent.

Originally published as ‘Relentless crisis’: Mumfluencer Constance Hall opens home to family in need