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Each time, she gave him money to pay for the flight, hotel, rental car and gas, she said, but he always came back with an excuse for why he needed more time and cash.

It also says it told them that rental income was not guaranteed and that six weeks was a short time to generate consistent bookings.

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Most residents, he said, have low or fixed incomes with few alternatives other than to endure the shoddy conditions in their rentals.

But since 2020 there has been a surge in their use - fuelled by asylum backlogs, housing shortages, and rising rental prices, according to Oxford University's Migration Observatory.