Our latest AccomNews print issue is available now! Read it HERE “While renters are forced to live in cars, crash on their friend’s couches, or sleep rough in parks, and thousands of others struggle to meet their needs after high rent, landlords are making a killing off the exploitation of tenants,” the union said in a Facebook post. The South East Queensland Union of Renters (SEQUR) claimed “hundreds” of people have been told their lease for their apartment won’t be renewed with the intention to “replace long-term apartments with Airbnbs”. Tenants at the $180-million Utopia Suites apartment building on Wickham St in Fortitude Valley, which has been operating as residential apartments for the last four years, claim they have been denied lease renewals in light of the building management now turning the apartments into short-term rentals. They say the repurposing of their long-term accommodation complex to short-stay will only worsen Brisbane’s rental crisis. Dozens of Brisbane apartment residents claim they are being kicked out of their rental properties to make way for new Airbnbs close to the CBD.
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