Check it out.

https://www.realestate.com.au/news/australian-housing-crisis-rental-advocate-jordan-van-den-lambs-squatting-campaign-slammed/


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A controversial social media influencer who claims to be helping to fix the national housing crisis by encouraging the homeless people to squat in vacant homes has been slammed by a peak real estate body. Known as PurplePingers on TikTok and Instagram, Jordan van den Lamb has attracted an audience of nearly 250,000 followers across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok — and created a database of homes across Australia that have been vacant for at least two years. RELATED: ‘Squatter’ wins right to keep $1.7 million home Australia’s new youth homelessness capital revealed Dubbed the ‘Robin Hood of renters’, van den Lamb connects followers with homes from the database privately but occasionally posts the addresses of the vacant homes on his Instagram account. Earlier this year he shared a video to his channels as something of a call to arms. “Are you sick of rich people hoarding empty houses during a housing crisis? I know I am,” Mr van den Lamb said, standing outside a rundown house in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone. “Here’s how you can do something about it.” The S*** Rentals website database now has nearly 1700 properties, along with his social media listings. Mr van den Lamb said he started the database to collect addresses of properties around Australia a few months ago after posting a video to his 200k+ followers on TikTok. “How it works is people will send an address to a Google form and they generally provide an explainer on how long the place has been vacant or how to get inside,” he said. Mr van den Lamb said he then checked for any planning or development applications for the residence and views the state of the house on Google Maps. “I’m targeting places that have been abandoned by the owner for at least two years,” he said. Mr van dan Lamb said his solution to help solve the housing crisis operates in the grey area of law, pointing out ways the people in one Aussie state can take advantage. “South Australia doesn’t have squatting laws; they’ve just got adverse possession laws and trespass laws,” he said. “A fundamental principle of our title system in Australia is that if you don’t use that land productively and someone else does, it becomes their property, as part of the adverse possession laws.” In July, Mr van den Lamb highlighted a Prosper Australia report that showed Melbourne has close to 100,000 vacant homes. “The fact there are 100,000 homes (on the list) means that pretty much one in 20 Melbourne metropolitan homes are vacant,” Mr van Den Lamb told his followers. He theorised that based on the average house size in the city, that those empty homes ‘could house 250,000 people’. However, Real Estate Institute of South Australia legislation and industry adviser Paul Edwards told The Advertiser while there were no laws surrounding “squatting”, anyone who was found on another’s property would be considered a trespasser. “Anybody who is not authorised to be on that property either as a tenant or boarder or lodger – they are not approved for the property and therefore are known as trespassers,” he said. “And just because the owner might not know about the people living on their property that still doesn’t given them (squatters) the right to live there. “They have no legal right to be in that property; they’re basically breaking and entering.” Mr Edwards warned Mr van den Lamb to stop encouraging squatting. Mr van dan Lamb said housing was a fundamental human right and if the governments are “unwilling” to resolve the crisis, people are forced to seek extreme solutions.

https://www.shitrentals.org/

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/jordan-was-fed-up-with-australias-empty-houses-his-proposal-has-led-to-death-threats/stx6rv6fl


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Jordan is going after Australia’s empty houses. His method is getting him death threats Rental advocate and law graduate Jordan van den Berg is setting people in Australia up with empty properties to squat in. Jordan van den Berg knows it's definitely not the antidote to the housing crisis, he does not encourage breaking and entering and believes bigger changes must be made to make housing more affordable. But is he encouraging squatting and setting up a database to help people connect with houses that appear empty and unused? Yes, he is. "It's hard to see all the abandoned homes when there are tent cities appearing nearby", he says. Many housing solutions take years to build, van den Berg adds, but the problem is now. "People are struggling now. People need housing now." You might know Jordan as Purple Pingers, the man behind 'poo rental' videos and his website where punters can review rentals, agencies and real estate agents. With his unenthused, exasperated voice, he's built a TikTok audience of 150,000 followers while advocating for renters and reporting on the dire aspects of Australia's rental market over the past three years. Exposing unresponsive real estate agents, fact-checking misleading rental listings and sharing the bad shape of some properties has been a way for him and his followers to feel like they're gaining some power back, he says. Last week, he decided to take it a step further. He asked his followers to submit addresses of empty properties they've spotted which he can pass on to someone who needs it. "If the government won't do anything about the rich hoarding empty homes, make them," he said in a TikTok video where he is standing in an empty house. In a matter of days, he's had 409 property submissions — most are which are Australian properties, but there are US addresses in the mix too. "It's unjust to have people sleeping on the street when we have multimillion-dollar homes lying around vacant," he told The Feed. The houses are located around population centres, usually in capital cities, and about 60 per cent are in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest capital city. The selection and state of the houses are mixed, but many of the properties are worth upward of $1 million, based on Domain sales Jordan has found online, he says. Some are even worth as much as $4 or $5 million. Since starting the database, which he keeps private, Jordan has started matching people with empty houses close by. He's done this now a few times. Jordan says he avoids prying about people's living situations but says some have shared that they are living in insecure or unsafe housing. One person who has been "matched" with an empty house had been living in their car. The encouragement to squat has not been without extensive pushback with some people even sending Jordan violent messages and death threats. "It's the owner's house, that means he owns it. That means he can do whatever he wants with it," one person said in a comment under his video. Jordan concedes, "whether or not that's the right thing to do is up for debate," but the law graduate reminds his audience that squatting may not be illegal in Australia. "Squatting is quite clearly not the ideal solution to our housing crisis in Australia, but it obviously makes rich people angry and when rich people are angry, often something gets done," he said. "Being homeless is incredibly risky. I think you've got to pick your battles."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U05st_75DLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3GUFfLWoI

I long ago said that if the cost of homing continued to rise and people could not afford it, suburbs would be filled with 'squats', with people occupying fallow houses etc that owners could not rent.

I say bring it on...


In August 2021, Newcastle Coroner Karen Dilks recorded that Lisa Shaw had died “due to complications of an Astrazeneca COVID vaccine"  ......

I nearly did, too... my heart arteries literally collapsed and I went into heart failure, my kidneys stopped functioning, I retained fluid to about three gallons (not litres) and my lungs were filling with fluid.... and I nearly drowned or suffered cardiac arrest.  Dropped 14 kg overnight when in hospital and they de-fluided me.

My cardiologist - a top man in his field - was shocked at the sudden change in my health when I went to see him... I managed one step on a treadmill and collapsed and he ran in from his office and literally carried me into his office, saying - "What happened?  You were doing so well!  This is so sudden!" .. I suspect he's still looking into this... and that was at his offices in Newcastle... I drove there for the visit - two hours each way... duh ...

What motivated me to get well again was the certain knowledge that youse lot couldn't make it without me.....

Sir lastnail wrote on Apr 16^th, 2025 at 10:59pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3GUFfLWoI

She left the house vacant for 17 years and thought nothing would happen?   ::)

Jordan van den Lamb is literally a communist and uses housing to push his take from the rich agenda.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller wrote on Apr 17^th, 2025 at 12:12am:

I long ago said that if the cost of homing continued to rise and people could not afford it, suburbs would be filled with 'squats', with people occupying fallow houses etc that owners could not rent. I say bring it on...

Followed by squatting in storage units US style ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlS5H8XHc9c