Melbourne renter makes drastic move after landlord raises the rent - and why ... trends now

A young Aussie claims she has been forced to move back home after her landlord increased her rent - even though they don't have a mortgage. 

Gemma Upson-McPike, 27, shared her plight in a TikTok video with the caption: 'Rental Crisis Rant'.

Ms Upson-McPike said she been forced to move back to her parents after her landlord raised the rent to $450 a week, up from $280 when she moved into the one-bedroom Melbourne apartment three years ago. 

Ms Upson-McPike said what 'really grinds her gears' is she is '99 per cent sure' the landlord does not have a mortgage 'so that can’t even be an excuse for landlords on here'.

'I know for a fact she has two investment properties,' Ms Upson-McPike said, adding the landlord had owned her rental since the 1980s.

She described the apartment as 'small' and 'nothing flash' and said it was located in an 'old buidling'.

'Sure, I live in a good suburb, I am probably just paying for location,' Ms Upson-McPike said.

'I have to pay to do my laundry, there’s cracks in the walls. It’s not worth $450 a week, that’s like two grand a month.' 

Ms Upson-McPike, who lists her occupation as a fitness trainer, said her wage was not 'outstanding'.

'Rent’s never been late, my inspections have always been absolutely spotless,' she said. 

Ms Upson-McPike said moving back in with her parents was not the 'plan I had for 27-year-old me but that is just how bad the rental crisis is at the moment'.  

'I am so lucky and so grateful that I can move back in with my parents but not everyone can do that so what’s your alternative?' she asked.

'You are homeless.'

She said home ownership was a vanishing dream for people her age.  

'This is why my generation can’t get ahead, why we can’t buy houses,' she said.

'I have been paying 20 grand a year in rent, but if I went to get a house loan they

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