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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week agoImmigration didn’t cause the housing crisis, but it’s now the biggest thing making it worse every single day.
We aren’t building enough houses. There being thousands of empty houses is irrelevant because people own them. They’re not on the market. They were empty before the mass immigration started.
There being more people here doesn’t mean more labour to build houses, because we’re not importing builders or even people that are considered “skilled”. Something like 10% of all the immigrants coming here now are “skilled workers”, the rest are their families and students and unskilled workers.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 week ago
So, let me get this straight. We have more housing per person than any time in the lady 30 years, and you’re saying we’re not building enough houses?
How is more demand from more immigrants a problem, but low supply from people literally hoarding houses, a human need, not a problem?
It’s crazy how people, including you, don’t have a problem with people hoarding, and will let the elites convince you it’s foreigners.
Like???
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
People can buy whatever they want to. They’re under no obligation to rent a house out, nor are they not allowed to buy more houses.
We have a supply problem. We aren’t building enough houses. This is fact. We are importing over 7000 people per week, all of who need housing. Are we building 7000 new houses per week in the places these immigrants want to live - inner city? No.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 week ago
We have more houses per person, so it is not a fact. We do have a supply problem, because we’re not utilising our existing housing stock.
We do have a supply problem, but it’s wild you think it’s okay for wealthy people to screw the rest of us over. The supply problem is because houses are sitting empty, and tax incentives are such that profiting off of housing makes it an asset class people are pouring money into.
We could just decide tomorrow we’re going to keep housing prices nominally stable, make hoarding empty houses illegal (like, someone’s “freedom” to profit doesn’t trump the rest of our freedom of having somewhere affordable to live… we live in a society, not an anarcho-capitalist hellscape), and remove tax incentives that make housing such an attractive asset class.
We could be using these piles of money invested into unproductive assets (the house just sits there, the actual value from living there is far, far exceeded by the current price) and invest them in actual productive assets like companies and research.
Housing needs to be for people to live, not to profit.
We are building enough housing per person, that’s a fact, and I’ve given you the data to prove it. Yes, even with how many people were bringing in (which I agree, we ought not just aimlessly do).
But it’s plainly obvious that the reason housing is expensive is not because of the number of houses we have.
To be clear we have more housing per person than before, so the 7000 per week figure (also, is that net?), doesn’t really prove your point at all.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
Where are these empty houses? Not where people want to live, and they’re not for sale or rent so they’re irrelevant.
Are we building 7000 new homes per week?