10000$ a year rent for something that to buy new is 16k

Shit's fucked. Could be a scam too. Apparently common on Facebook at the moment people advertise a room or something like this and then when people start messaging they ask for the first week payment to secure it before everyone else.

So they get a dozen or so people's $200.

I don't think listing is meant as somewhere to live (I hope) I think it's meant for someone to rent to go on a roadtrip/camping with

Edit: I missed the long term part at the bottom :(

Tell ‘em they’re dreaming!

remember that this is easily fixable, all it takes is the government funding housing construction.

Housing issues are a problem that the politicians decide we should have, stop giving them your votes.

Am I poor or desperate enough to think that 800/mth is on the high end of reasonable?

Although paying rent every week like they do in Australia is crazy to me still.

For only $800 a month, you can be homeless if you work hard enough!

$800/month?

This would easily be $2000/month in BC, I've seen tons of ads like this

Is this real?

Wow, that sounds downright affordable compared to my rent.

I was thinking of moving to Australia and this fears me

I read that everywhere is having housing problems. Why is that?

Yeesh. I wonder how many people are doing this, renting out their caravans like this.

Is Brisbane this bad? Have heard of syd, melb and cbr being like this but somehow assumed things were netter up north.

I mean, you could just not rent it.