Ad offering $999/month van living with ‘perks’ vanishes from Craigslist
Global News
The ad boasted renters will have “a special relationship with management to provide showers, washrooms, and sauna use 24/7 in the building with extra storage.”
Vancouver’s housing crisis has become so bad that one urban expert says it’s difficult to tell whether a questionable ad posted online purporting to offer $999/month van living with ‘perks’ is actually an innovative rental opportunity or someone’s idea of a prank.
The “Unique Housing: Van Life!” ad appeared on Craigslist Friday, stating three separate furnished vans are available to rent in the parking lot of a West End rental building starting Dec. 1. The ad contained photos purporting to show two different van interiors.
The poster boasted they have “a special relationship with management to provide showers, washrooms, and sauna use 24/7 in the building with extra storage.”
“Living in a van allows you to live spontaneously,” stated the ad, which adds the vans have newly installed electric heat and are located in a “very safe alley”.
By Saturday, the ad disappeared with a message that the posting was “flagged for removal” appearing in its place.
“I think it really illustrates the kind of desperation that some people are facing in the city of Vancouver,” SFU city program director Andy Yan told Global News in an interview Sat.
“When we have this difficulty of identifying the difference between parody and reality.”
Global News visited the building address listed on the ad and saw one van in the parkade, although its interior did not appear to match either of the photos from the original Craigslist post.
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