After struggling to find a home for two years, Adam Pippos finally secured a place in Queensland's strained social housing sector giving it his own unique twist.
They say your home is your castle, but Adam Pippos may be the only social housing tenant in Australia to sit on a throne.87 per cent are considered very high or high need, which includes people who are homelessHe lives near the western suburbs of the Gold Coast — an area with the second-lowest vacancy rate in Queensland and where rents have jumped 23.3 per cent in 12 months, according to an analysis by national housing campaign Everybody's Home.
While there are around 3,100 applications for social housing on the Gold Coast, Mr Pippos managed to secure a home with enough space for his woodcarving passion."I took that to the extreme. I can make a normal chair or I can make an awesome woodcarving chair with a dragon wrapped around it."