In Hobart, winter came a little early this year.
The bitter cold wind roared through the mountain, and Rebecca Reynolds (Rebecca Reynolds) was impatient.
"the snow has reached your knees," she said. She and her husband had five children, adults and four children living in a caravan, and her 17-year-old son, who chose to sleep on her luggage, used hay to shield him from the wind.
For the past six months, the family has lived here, renting a house for three years and selling it to a mainlanders. The caravan was parked next to the home of a relative in the countryside, about 30 minutes away from the city, and it was only a stopgap.
Reynolds said she had sent 70 applications for rent and had seen it six times a week alone. "We usually get a text message telling us that the application fails," she said.
The 36-year-old woman is one of tens of thousands of people in Tahrena who have been shut out of the housing market.
A city struggling in pain
Australia's island state is enjoying unprecedented economic growth, and the state government has been hailed as a success in attracting more residents, more tourists and more money into the state.
Hobart now has a population of two hundred and twenty six thousand nine hundred and ninety nine; 2500 people moved here last year. Professor Jason Bourne (Jason Byrne), who recently worked at the University of Tasmania, is one of them.
'The government has been promoting Tasmania, and it's working,'he said. Promised comfortable housing, work and relaxed lifestyle to attract mainlanders across the Bath Strait to come here.
At the same time, tourism is booming. More than 1.2 million tourists arrived last year. Amid mounting pressure on housing suppliers, the Liberal Party's government has relaxed controls on Airbnb, a short-term accommodation option, as well as previous requirements for homeowners to plan applications.
In Hobart alone, the number of homes on Airbnb jumped to more than 850, up from 250 two years ago. Many real estate investors reneged on the leasing market, leaving tenants in trouble.
"We've had situations where people who have rented a house in the same place for 20 years have been notified that the lease will not be renewed because the house is to be used for the Airbnb lease," said Chuck (Pattie Chugg), chief executive of Shelter Tasmania. This leaves the tenant without sense of security. "
Victims of their own success
Residents are concerned about the real estate market crisis, the market rental property shortage. Hobart's vacancy rate has fallen to 0.3 percent, the most tense rental market yet in Australia's capital city.
According to Domain, Hobart's median rent rose 15% in a year. Emergency accommodation workers say some tenants have increased their weekly rents by 150 yuan.
Tata still has the lowest wages in the country, despite soaring life pressures, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
At the same time, investors are buying homes, mainly because Hobart has the strongest rental gains compared with other cities in the country.
And the appetite of investors also boosts house prices. In the year to March, the median number of independent homes soared from three hundred and ninety thousand yuan to four hundred and fifty thousand yuan.
"so it goes without saying that Hobart is the victim of his own success," Professor Bourne said.
(Tony Collidge), chairman of the state real estate association, said renting houses could attract dozens of applicants, while the number of properties for sale was at an all-time low, and the number of properties for sale is typically 60 percent lower than the current level.
The stress of the housing crisis was so great that poor people could only be turned away.
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During the crisis, Scott Gerd (Scott Gadd), president of the Royal Agricultural Association of Tasma, also managed Hobart's exhibition grounds and adjacent auto family parks.
During his seven years in office, he was accustomed to seeing one or two homeless people in the park at any time. "but last December, I noticed a number of families," he said. "A family with children, a family with a job."
The state homeless services report that 43% of requests for help come from families with children. According to Shelter Tasmania, an average of 14 requests for help per day are not met.
When he saw a 15-year-old girl doing her homework under the lights of a barbecue house, the brutal reality hit Gerd hard. She lived in a tent with her 11-year-old sister and mother, who, after some time, returned to Tata, but couldn't find a rental house.
"the family is very good, but their luck is not very good," Gerd said. "the 15-year-old used to go out at 6 a. M. and go to school early so that her friends don't know where she lives."