The huge tent city that has emerged amid Australia's housing crisis trends now

9 shares

89

View
comments

A campground filled with tents at an Australian holiday destination isn't what it first seems - the residents aren't holidaymakers but locals who can't find houses to rent.

More than 50 families have moved into the tent city at Moruya, an idyllic beachside town on the NSW South Coast, with the need so high from locals that the holiday park is no longer open to tourists.

The campground usually has a limit to how long people can live there - under two months - but council is now waiving this as they have nowhere else to go.

'In no way could I ever imagine that a council could kick people out of an area just because it's a tourist area,' Eurobodalla Shire Mayor Mathew Hatcher told 9News. 

Cassie, a mother-of-two young boys, worries she could be the next permanent resident of the tent city after her rent became too expensive in July 2022.