Sydney woman’s tour of $500 studio sparks outrage from renters
A woman has sent Aussie renters into a rage after revealing some extremely questionable features in her Sydney studio apartment.
A Sydney renter has left social media users in disbelief after revealing the grim state of her $500 a week studio apartment.
TikTok user Em recently shared a video giving a tour of her of her Glebe apartment in Sydney’s inner west and the plethora of hazardous features it includes, prompting hundreds of shocked responses.
“Things in my $500 p/w studio in Sydney that just make sense,” she began the video.
Some of the inconvenient and bizarre, but ultimately manageable, features included having to stack the fridge on the dryer to “save space”, an unsightly view of the neighbour’s yard and having the bathroom mirror glued onto a window.
However, there were also downright dangerous aspects of the apartment, including tape holding the roof together, a broken kitchen bench and collapsed sink.
“Keens Curry holding the sink up,” Em pointed out, showing the spice tin precariously jammed in between the sink and the countertop.
Other parts of the rental also showed blue cabled hanging from the wall and a “wardrobe door that won’t stay open because the flat was built on a lean”.
The tenant also noted that if she wanted to have any leg space while using the toilet, she had to sit on the seat sideways.
“Gotta laugh so I don’t cry,” she captioned the video.
In a follow up video, Em explained that the vent above the oven also didn’t work, forcing the renters to hold a small fan while cooking.
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The original video received more than 300,000 views and 700 comments, with people horrified at the state of her rental.
“It’s not even funny but it’s so bad I couldn’t help but laugh!” one person wrote.
Another noted: “It just kept getting worse and worse”.
One person claimed this video was proof that the “rental crisis is so real”.
Commenters were quick to turn their rage towards the landlord, blasting the state of the apartment and the cost of the rent “dismal”.
“Dismal. Landlords should be disgusted with themselves. Rate rises don’t cause this bs,” one person said.
“This is just embarrassing. Landlords should seriously be ashamed,” another wrote.
All tenants are feeling the pinch of the growing rental crisis, but those on welfare and low incomes after feeling it more than others, with supply dwindling and weekly costs skyrocketing.
Anglicare Australia’s Rental Affordability Snapshot examined thousands of properties listed for rent in a single weekend in March or April and measured whether they are affordable for those in different income brackets.
This year’s snapshot found only 45,895 property listings across the whole of Australia, the lowest number ever seen in the report’s history as vacancy rates remain at their lowest levels of 0.8 per cent.
Of those properties, only 345 – or 0.8 per cent – could be afforded by a person earning a full-time minimum wage.
That figure is abysmal, according to Anglicare Australia chief executive Kasy Chambers.
“Each year we think the market couldn’t get any worse. And each year, we’re shocked to see that it can,” Ms Chambers said.
“This year’s result is the worst we have ever seen for a person on the minimum wage, with affordability halving over the last year.”
Those figures are even worse for those on welfare, with just 162 or 0.4 per cent being affordable for someone on the aged pension and 66 or 0.1 per cent being cost effective for those on the disability support pension.
Just four rentals were affordable for a person on Jobseeker, all of them rooms in share houses.
– with NCA NewsWire
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