SBS The Feed | Meet the People Secretly Squatting in Australia's Houses | SBS The Feed @SBSTheFeed | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Percy saw a house he used to rent sitting empty and moved back in ... without the owner knowing.

Squatters are hiding in plain sight in some of Australia's most expensive suburbs. Priced out of the rental market or "making use of empty properties" - we meet some squatters to say why they feel justified in doing it.

Read more about Percy and others here: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/when-percy-saw-a-suburban-house-sitting-empty-he-moved-himself-in-meet-australias-squatters/gbk61zgel

Chapters:
0:00 Australia's housing affordability and rental crisis
0:34 Meet a squatter
1:38 Squatter house tour
3:10 Squatter shows his makeshift 'toilet'
3:36 What are the problems with empty properties?
4:17 Getting rid of a squatter
5:14 What are squatter's rights?
6:00 What is squatting?
7:58 What should we do with the empty houses?

Producer/Reporter: Michelle Elias
Shooter/Editor: Gavin Blyth

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