Jordan van den Berg's vigilante-style approach has won him fans and critics amid a housing crisis.

Three years ago, lawyer Jordan van den Berg was an obscure TikTok creator who made videos that mocked real estate agents.

But today the 28-year-old is one of the most high-profile activists in Australia.

Posting under the moniker Purple Pingers, Mr van den Berg has been taking on the nation’s housing crisis by highlighting shocking renting conditions, poor behaviour from landlords, and what he calls government failures.

It is his vigilante-style approach - which includes helping people find vacant homes to squat in, and exposing bad rentals in a public database - that has won over a legion of fans.

Some have dubbed him the Robin Hood of renters.

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    8 months ago

    “Isn’t given priority status” is totally the same as “specifically banned here”. Move them goalposts harder.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      8 months ago

      You transitioned into panicking that cishet white Christians are being persecuted because there is a sub for US news and a different sub for other news, but it is the other people’s hyperbole that is wrong, got it.

      • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        8 months ago

        You just go on ahead and make up more stuff to argue about. I’ll watch since my input isn’t really represented here.

        • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          Your input isn’t represented? Uh oh, sounds like you are being silenced and persecuted!

          • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            8 months ago

            More like ‘brave new world’-ed. You’re just making a bunch of noise hoping that I dig a hole and people avoid me.