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| Subject: OZschwitz statists whining because illegal backpacker hostels are spreading like 'cancer' Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:35 am | |
| DANGEROUSLY overcrowded flats filled with backpackers in inner Melbourne suburbs are spreading like ''cancer'', according to a fire safety inspector.
The officer with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade's building inspection and compliance department said rogue landlords were buying two-bedroom flats in popular backpacker areas, such as St Kilda, and squeezing in up to 10 travellers at a time.
Disgruntled neighbours are then selling their flats, often to the same landlord, who crams in more backpackers. ''It's like a cancer, it just spreads throughout the building,'' the fire safety inspector said. ''We've seen whole groups of flats taken over so by the time we get a flat fire because they're overcrowded with drunken people … you've got flats with hundreds where you'd expect to find 20 people.''
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