Renter advocate Jordan van den Berg drew criticism after urging people struggling to find housing to occupy vacant homes, saying he had received more than 300 submissions identifying empty properties. His appearance on The Project prompted heated debate online, against a backdrop of a national rental vacancy rate near 1 per cent and rental growth averaging 9.1 per cent a year over three years.
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