The absolute state of housing in Australia at the minute - rent a caravan in a driveway in a semi-rural locality, only $200/week!

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

... and no shower / toilet.
and that trailer itself is worth about $1000
- You couldn't pay me $1000 to take that trailer. It's a total piece of shit at the end of its life.

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 :(

Seeing how the rent is on a weekly basis I think so too. Drop 200 bucks and take out the family to the sea for a nice camping trip
- Seeing how the rent is on a weekly basis I think so too.
  Seeing as you're from another instance I'm guessing you're not from Australia, and came across this thread on /All?
  Weekly rent is, for some weird reason, the norm here. I know most of the world does it monthly, and frankly I think that makes more sense. But it's not how we do things in Aus.

Tell ‘em they’re dreaming!

They may not be dreaming. Rent elsewhere can easily be $450 per week.

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.

Fixable, yes; easily, no. One of the problems is land availability near services and transportation. The second is zoning laws which are not aligned with creating affordable housing. Both if those are processes which will take decades to truly solve, even with consistent, continuous vision and plan.

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.

Am I poor or desperate enough to think that 800/mth is on the high end of reasonable?
For a caravan in the driveway of someone's semi-rural property?
- Sadly that's about how much it would be where I'm at.

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

Ugh to many spiders for me to ever think about moving to Bluey world.
It should.

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

Greed, capitalism.

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

I know a few people living in them and similar odds and ends. Lots of trips into the house for amenities, some pissing into a jug because the walk is too long for regular bathroom trips

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

Yeah it is, most rooms are 200+ in the inner suburbs, 3 bedrooms are easily 6-800/wk. I was somewhat depressed by the number of people bombarding me with offers when we had a spare room to fill.
- Whoa. Thats messed up
Sadly it is. I regularly go into Brisbane and have seen the amount of folks sleeping rough at least triple in the list couple of years.

I mean, you could just not rent it.