Sex for rent: The seedy underbelly of Australia's housing affordability crisis: "As Sydney house prices creep towards a median of $1 million, the seedy underbelly of Australia's housing affordability crisis is emerging online.
Advertisements offering "free rent for services" are springing up across mainstream house-sharing sites.
Some are clear in their nature.
One advertisement on Craigslist read: "Are you a lovely female needing a room for a night or two . . don't want to pay over the top hotel fees?"
The advertisement continued, "My place is clean, close to transport and CBD ... the only catch is there is one bed only."
"A friends with benefits arrangement?"
Another advertisement is more detailed: "You've probably figured out the arrangement already, so let's get down to specifics."
"ME: Handsome, tall, in great shape, generous, self-employed, late 30's,"
"YOU: Young (under 21), gorgeous, adventurous, looking for free rent ... "
However, subtext can be lost on the vulnerable, particularly those with limited English.
*Tom has "a free room available in kings cross area for the right Guest...Obviously looking to make an arrangement. But flexible in what that is".
Another, unnamed person in Cronulla is offering free rent and "help with study" for female Asian students, with no indication of what is expected in return.
Sophie*, an international student from China, was shocked by Sydney's high rent.
"The equivalent in Beijing was around $150 a week, and here is so difficult," she said.
Two days after placing an advertisement on Gumtree for "cheap or free rent in exchange for cleaning and cooking", a young couple asked Sophie to share her body instead."
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Advertisements offering "free rent for services" are springing up across mainstream house-sharing sites.
Some are clear in their nature.
One advertisement on Craigslist read: "Are you a lovely female needing a room for a night or two . . don't want to pay over the top hotel fees?"
The advertisement continued, "My place is clean, close to transport and CBD ... the only catch is there is one bed only."
"A friends with benefits arrangement?"
Another advertisement is more detailed: "You've probably figured out the arrangement already, so let's get down to specifics."
"ME: Handsome, tall, in great shape, generous, self-employed, late 30's,"
"YOU: Young (under 21), gorgeous, adventurous, looking for free rent ... "
However, subtext can be lost on the vulnerable, particularly those with limited English.
*Tom has "a free room available in kings cross area for the right Guest...Obviously looking to make an arrangement. But flexible in what that is".
Another, unnamed person in Cronulla is offering free rent and "help with study" for female Asian students, with no indication of what is expected in return.
Sophie*, an international student from China, was shocked by Sydney's high rent.
"The equivalent in Beijing was around $150 a week, and here is so difficult," she said.
Two days after placing an advertisement on Gumtree for "cheap or free rent in exchange for cleaning and cooking", a young couple asked Sophie to share her body instead."
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