'Homeless' West Australian MP Wilson Tucker actually owns a $830,000 four-bedroom house in Perth suburb

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By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 22:58 EDT, 17 June 2024 | Updated: 22:58 EDT, 17 June 2024

A person who complained astir having to unrecorded successful his car since being evicted from a rental spot has been revealed to ain a four-bedroom location worthy $831,000.

Independent Western Australia MP Wilson Tucker said past week that helium was forced into homelessness aft receiving a no-grounds eviction announcement astatine the extremity of April.

But Mr Tucker did not notation that helium bought a location connected an 873-square metre artifact astatine Hamersley successful Perth's northbound past November, which helium rents retired for astir $700 a week.

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia past weekend, Mr Tucker said helium has looked astatine a batch of places since helium got his eviction notice, but has not been capable to find a spot to rent.

'There's surely a batch of fearfulness and desperation successful the market. There's virtually hundreds of radical showing up (to presumption rentals), competing implicit a fistful of properties ... it has been incredibly frustrating.'

WA MP Wilson Tucker (pictured) complained astir having to unrecorded successful his car since being evicted from a rental spot - but it has been revealed helium owns a four-bedroom location worthy $831,000

As helium represents the mining and pastoral portion of Kununurra successful WA's precocious house, Mr Tucker 'decided to fundamentally battalion up and unrecorded retired of my car up north' during the weeks that parliament isn't sitting.

He said helium volition enactment successful hotels erstwhile helium needs to beryllium successful Perth, and walk the remainder of the clip surviving retired of his Prado and successful a structure portion helium goes astir his electorate, which is 2,205,281 quadrate kilometres.

'There's immoderate days wherever it makes consciousness if you're successful a much distant determination to propulsion up a tent. If I'm staying successful much of a determination municipality similar Kununurra, I'll astir apt drawback a motel.'

But Mr Tucker has present admitted helium owns a location conscionable 14km north-west of Perth's CBD, but said determination were tenants surviving determination erstwhile helium bought it. 

'I would consciousness incredibly atrocious if I were to marque radical a unfortunate of a marketplace which is incredibly hard close now, and that could mean that they were retired connected the streets.

'I'm much than blessed to benignant of respect their wishes successful airy of my own, fixed I don't person arsenic galore dependents and americium a spot nomadic astatine the moment,' helium told the West Australian

He added that arsenic helium whitethorn not tally again successful the adjacent WA election, helium considered the location arsenic an concern spot that helium whitethorn aboriginal determination into. 

The revelation did not halt Mr Tucker from slamming the authorities authorities for however it deals with renters. 

'It's incredibly disappointing that the WA authorities has sided with the spot manufacture to the detriment of the 700,000 renters,' helium said, calling for it 'to rethink their position' connected rental protection.

'The elephant successful the room, the debased hanging effect here, is to region no-grounds evictions and bring WA successful enactment with the remainder of the country.'

Mr Tucker did not notation that helium bought a location connected an 873-square metre artifact astatine Hamersley (pictured) successful Perth's northbound past November, and rents it retired for astir $700 a week

A authorities authorities spokesperson responded that, 'With the existent challenges facing WA's rental market, it is not successful the community's interests to marque it much analyzable to ain and negociate a semipermanent rental property. 

'Our authorities needs much investors successful the marketplace and uncertainty astir their quality to negociate their ain plus whitethorn basal successful the mode of expanding supply.' 

The WA Parliament's disclosure rules mean that Mr Tucker does not person to state that helium bought the location until July.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Mr Tucker for further remark connected his lodging situation.  

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