Australian housing crisis: Rental advocate Jordan van den Lambs squatting campaign slammed [Video]

A controversial social media influencer who claims to be helping to fix the national housing crisis by encouraging the homeless people to squat in vacant homes has been slammed by a peak real estate body.

Known as PurplePingers on TikTok and Instagram, Jordan van den Lamb has attracted an audience of nearly 250,000 followers across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok — and created a database of homes across Australia that have been vacant for at least two years.

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Dubbed the ‘Robin Hood of renters’, van den Lamb connects followers with homes from the database privately but occasionally posts the addresses of the vacant homes on his Instagram account.

Earlier this year he shared a video to his channels as something of a call to arms.