Renters relying on hacks to dodge housing crisis, as advocates call for cultural change

Bank worker Nick McClure has been house sitting for two years as a way to manage costs in the rental crisis. (Supplied)

Every time he rethinks living in a stranger's home, Nick McClure only has to look at the Sydney housing market. 

The 29-year-old bank worker started house-sitting a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, thinking it was a loophole to staying with friends or paying for accommodation on a trip to Melbourne.