Council looks to landlords for lessons on dealing with housing crisis…by evicting people sleeping in tents in parks

TRENT BARTLETT

Councils around Adelaide have begun doing their part to fight the housing crisis, by evicting dozens of people sleeping rough in the parklands and throwing their tents in the bin.

The bold new strategy comes after extensive consultation with Adelaide’s most qualified experts in compassion: landlords and real estate agents. “If they didn’t want their tents thrown away,” Real Estate Agent Johnson Ahrmerkhant explained, “they should have been living in a house. It’s just simple logic.”

While critics have asked where those affected are supposed to go, the council Spokesperson for Tent Disposal, Terri Clamsome simply replied: “somewhere else, ideally in a different council area, preferably interstate.”

“This is about dignity,” continues Clamsome, “our parklands’ dignity, that is. Imagine the stress we go through walking past a tent knowing they’re not paying rates.”