High-rise apartment blocks have become a hot spot for illegal room sharing with foreign students and workers being charged high rent for tiny sleeping spaces including sections of living rooms and space on the balcony.The illegal room share market has escalated in Melbourne's CBD with the council set to target 'unscrupulous' operators and landlords by hiring a professional investigator to crackdown and gather evidence so they can be prosecuted.Melbourne City Council has identified at least two groups who are renting out beds in illegal room share houses in high rise towers throughout the city via online websites like Gumtree and Facebook. This apartment in a Melbourne high rise tower, which has six people of various nationalities currently living there, has a bed placed on the balcony and another next to the dining table A number of online advertisements list share rooms for rent with three or more people, including one on Spencer Street that has photos of a bed on the balcony of the high rise tower building.
The two bedroom apartment, which has six people of various nationalities currently living there, is leasing its single bunk beds for $140-$145.Photos of the property show two sets of bunk beds crammed together in one room, while a single bed has been placed next to the dining table in the living room.Another bed is also up for rent in a living room on Swanston Street for $115.The property, which has two bedrooms, has photos showing two sets of bunks beds crowded into the living room. This Spencer Street apartment in Melbourne is leasing its single bunk beds for $140-$145. It comes as Melbourne City Council plans to crackdown on the illegal room share market The two bedroom apartment, which has six people of various nationalities currently living there, has a single bed in the living room next to the dining table and kitchenAn advertisement for the apartment says there'll be a total of seven people living there, including: '1 working Vietnamese, 2 Malaysia student, 1 traveller Italian, 1 working Philippine'.
A nearby apartment is also leasing a bunk bed in the living room for $145 a week. Melbourne City Council will appoint an investigator to look into the illegal room share market within the next few weeks. 'We've known for some time housing operators have been advancing in Melbourne and preying on particularly vulnerable groups especially international students,' Melbourne councillor Richard Forest told Daily Mail Australia. 'The appointment of an investigator will go a long way to bring those operators to account. Another bed is also up for rent in a living room on Swanston Street for $115. An advertisement for the apartment says there'll be a total of seven people living there The property, which has two bedrooms, has photos in the advertisement showing two sets of bunks beds crowded into the living room where seven people live This bunk bed is up for rent in a nearby apartment for $145 a week. It is marketed on its proximity to RMIT University, presumably to target young students looking for accommodation 'Almost every room of a premise we've seen examples of is being used as an accommodation space.
It's dangerous and downright unfair and in breach of the law.'Cr Forest said the council will prosecute dodgy landlords and groups with operators facing fines of up to $3,033 under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act. The crackdown in Melbourne follows Sydney City Council appointing a four-person investigative team to uncover landlords cramming students into squalid and overcrowded spaces crawling with cockroaches and strewn with rubbish.Photos obtained from City of Sydney revealed young Asian and European university students and tourists were sleeping in baths, pantries and even fire escapes after being scammed into renting from Gumtree and Facebook. This room near South Cross Station has two bunk beds and a double bed. The landlord is asking for $135-$150 per person per week for one of the bunk beds The crackdown in Melbourne follows Sydney City Council appointing a four-person investigative team to uncover landlords cramming students into squalid and overcrowded spaces (pictured)
Photos obtained from City of Sydney revealed young Asian and European university students and tourists were sleeping in baths, pantries and even fire escapes, while showering in makeshift bathroomsAmong the disturbing scenes uncovered by investigators included a three-bedroom house containing 58 beds and 19 illegally constructed bedrooms, one bedroom apartments crammed with up to 10 residents and hallways converted into makeshift shower cubicles. 'It's extraordinary the lengths to which these landlords will go. They're charging people for a bed, not a bedroom,' Lord Mayor Clover Moore told Daily Mail Australia. 'That bed can be in a pantry, a fire escape, a bath - this is how bad it is. It just takes your breath away.'The other thing that particularly concerns us are kitchens infested with cockroaches, smoke detectors switched off, disconnected fire doors.'It's really dangerous and really seedy and it's a horrible environment for young people'. Among the disturbing scenes included a three-bedroom house containing 58 beds and 19 illegally constructed bedrooms, as well as hallways converted into makeshift shower cubicles (pictured)
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