One of Australia’s most prominent comedians has revealed her dire living situation in a shoddy rental property.
Judith Lucy posted a video to social media about her living arrangements, which left her trapped inside her home for days when the front door jammed.
She told viewers she had also had a wall collapse, was left without electricity in her laundry, and had to call a plumber multiple times when a toilet cistern came off a wall.
“The main reason I want to drink myself to death today is because I am living in a rental that I like to refer to as the house of sh.t,” she said.
“Since moving in here just over a year ago, I’ve had the plumber here, I think four or five times. Tom, we’re on a first-name basis.
“My toilet cistern pulled away from the wall and was at such a bizarre angle that every time you went to piss, it was like you’re in a Salvador Dali painting.”
Australia’s property pain has seen housing prices skyrocket with the median price for rental properties across the nation soar to about $650 per week.
Lucy joked that while she was grateful to be living anywhere in a housing crisis, she was considering moving into a small chest of drawers on the footpath because it would be safer.
Many people commented with similar experiences about their rental properties with one person commenting they had no hot water for six weeks and locks that are jammed.
“I’m living in a rental where I’ve had no hot water for six weeks, a dishwasher that doesn’t work, locks that are jammed, lights burnt out and an oven that doesn’t work when using the hotplates,” one person said.
“Our kids don’t play with electronics or plumbing etc … but the owner always puts up rent which we now pay $800 a week,” another person commented.
“There is shortage of housing and yes we are grateful for a roof over our heads, but downstairs toilet floods and we are ankle deep in sh.t and waste, but the owner still blames our kids.”
“This morning the hinge broke on my bathroom cupboard. The backdoor won’t shut properly, a window is leaking, and I had to call someone to kill the European wasps that had made a nest in the wall,” a person said.
