There is further evidence Australia's ongoing housing crisis is deepening as the national vacancy rate hits a record low of 0.7 per cent, according to Domain.

I’m sure if we keep voting for the Libor and Laberal parties they will eventually fix it right?

  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneMEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    How come spending $368,000,000,0000 on nuclear submarines that won’t arrive until 2050, and most likely won’t be useful in 2050 because they will most likely be detectable, for a war that will never happen, is a good use of taxpayer funds but spending much less than that on housing is?

    They don’t even need to spend on housing, they just need to take a risk and kill the housing market, maybe pay off people’s mortgages.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
    87·
    4 months ago

    Definitely keep bringing in 300k people a year, while building fewer dwellings than the existing population require, and definitely continue incentivising them to be built either a) where nobody wants to live or b) of such a low quality you’re forced to take option a.

    All guaranteed to improve housing affordability and security for decades and decades and decades and decades.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      196·
      4 months ago

      This just seems like a thinly veiled attack on immigration honestly. I’d way rather see reforms on absentee foreign ownership of residential property, on Australian owners with more than one property leaving any vacant, and on negative gearing.

      There were also 300k babies born in 2022, didn’t hear you say people should stop having kids.

      Edit: As well, 220k people migrated away from Australia and 190k people died. It’s really easy to make one number seem like the problem, but there’s a bigger picture you’re omitting.

        • BadlyDrawnRhino @aussie.zone
          91·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, replying “Get fucked” to a response that brings up a lot of good counter-arguments to your original point will certainly make it look like you were bringing up immigration in good-faith.

        • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneMEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          Actually you sound more like a Karen. Care to explain how your comment is any different from a “Fuck Off We’re Full!” sticker?

          As @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone stated, immigration is not the only factor driving population growth and the housing crisis. Instead of attempting to lower demand, shouldn’t we be rapidly increasing supply?

        • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          I’m not sure where in my comment you think I called you racist mate. A huge chunk of our immigration is from New Zealand & the UK anyway. Do the math, our population would be shrinking without it.

          Like other people have said, why not focus on supply instead? We should implement an aggressive property rates regime on unoccupied homes. The National Rental Affordability Scheme is coming to an end in 2 years time, but it could be re-funded with that money. As well as fast-tracking social housing projects.

          An outright ban on absentee foreign ownership of residential property would also probably help supply a lot. It’s ridiculous that someone who doesn’t have a right to live in Australia, can still own a home here.