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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 hours agoWhere did I mention crime?
The housing crisis is caused by supply and demand. Importing over 1000 people a day while building no houses will do that.
You’re the one who is being duped by the looks of it, eating up all their excuses for why supply and demand isn’t the issue.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Who’s excuses? You mean for immigration? I’m not for excessive, nor no immigration. I’m for a manageable number. Just that I think it’s wrong to say it’s the cause of the housing crisis.
From your child comment
That’s the thing, we’ve been building houses like crazy, and somewhat keeping up with demand, evidenced by the fact there are THOUSANDS EMPTY PROPERTIES. The price inflation no where near matches the utility of houses or demand if it were for living in only. People are expecting to make returns on the house. It’s been commodified and tax incentivised and thus prices have gone way up. You’re also ignoring the extremely obvious fact that the more people who are here, the more labour there is to produce houses. Having more or less people makes practically no difference to the rate we can build houses (all else being equal).
Funnily enough, Singapore is way, way more constrained with land for housing, but have an extremely strong public housing system, preventing most people from living in properties that have been made into investment vehicles.
Yes. Yes they are. They lobby for lower taxes (for them), avoid the taxes that already exist, making billions off the backs of other people’s labour (you can’t seriously suggest Gina Rhinehart has put in enough effort to warrant her billions). They own practically 80% of the politicians in parliament. And it’s hilarious (and very upsetting) how many people are believing the bullshit they’ve been feeding us since forever.
The only solution to the housing crisis is making house investment less profitable, and make them somewhere to live, not somewhere to make a profit.
Good luck making your billions mate. It’s DEFINITELY within most people’s reach… lol /s