Distraught mother is forced to live in a tent away from her three children after battling to find a home to rent for an entire YEAR in Australia’s toughest rental market
- A couple in Gold Coast’s tiny rental market have been forced to move into a tent
- The mother has to live away from her three children who are living with family
- Corinne Cook had to leave her rental home in June last year when owners sold
- She and kids were staying with loved ones before she had to move to the tent
A mother has been forced to move into a tent away from her three children after struggling to find a house to rent for an entire year.
Grappling with the Gold Coast rental market where availability is the lowest in the country, Corinne Cook and her partner Dale Brown moved into the 10-man tent while her three kids live with relatives.
‘I want my kids home and they want to be home but I can’t have them here and when I do have them here they don’t want to be here because it’s not a homely feeling,’ Ms Cook told Nine News.
Corrine Cook lives with her partner Dale Brown (both pictured) in a tent because they couldn’t get a rental home in the Gold Coast
She said she gets to see her children whenever she wants, but it’s not the same as living under the same roof.
Ms Cook said her family had been looking for a new home since June last year, when the owner of her previous rental house decided to sell.
The family had been living in caravan parks and family members’ houses as application after application was rejected by prospective landlords.
The mother-of-three said she felt ‘overwhelmed’ when she went to look at new houses on the market due to the huge crowds that turned up.
‘Go to have a look at the house and there’s 30 other people there,’ Ms Cook said, adding it was the ‘worst situation’ she’d ever been in.
Ms Cook can see her children whenever she wants but says it is ‘not the same’ as having her whole family living under one roof, her children stay with their relatives
Recent data shows the Gold Coast has the least available rental market in the country with vacancy rates dipping to as low as 0.4 per cent.
The Queensland state average is also low at 0.7 per cent.
The state is expecting a major influx of domestic migration from southern states over the next few years.
The Gold Coast’s population alone is expected to grow by more than 145,000 people over the next decade.
For the 12 months ending in March this year, the city had the third highest growth rate after the Southern Highlands south of Sydney and the Hunter Valley.
Gold Coast has the lowest rate of rental vacancies in the country as many emigrate to the growing city
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