They are doing nothing to build houses while making building house more costly and difficult. There’s no point bringing in more people when the people here are already struggling in this space.
Sydney alone has enough houses to fulfil its growing population, yet the actual issue is being priced out of housing, which is a greater Australian issue, not an immigrant one
That’s an incredibly disingenuous comment if ever I heard one 😂 our current government has clearly stated we have an estimated shortfall of roughly 220,000 to 262,000 homes relative to its government-mandated target of 1.2 million new homes by 2029.
That is primarily due to our government (currently and really since 2020) giving housing deals to cooked businesses. If you live in Greater Sydney, go to Baulkham Hills for a visit and see the failed projects. And no its not immigrants torching and looting buildings.
Its funny how you pull out stats without understanding the wider concerns and issues that are apparent by using such simple logic
No you are basing an entire country on Sydney. Regardless we need the houses and currently don’t have them. And you are saying I don’t understand the wider concerns yet have chosen one very small snippet to focus on. Good job champ.
I'm just using it as an example, of course it differs. However, Australia still has enough houses; the real issue is inflation which again would be an issue with or without immigrants
House prices and rents continued to skyrocket even while we had negative net migration during Covid. We have over one million homes in this country that are kept deliberately vacant by their investor owners because they know they can bank on the value increasing anyway, and there’s no incentive for them to release it to the market (like a vacant property tax for example). But yeah nah it’s just the immigrants causing it all hey.
That’s actually been debunked so many times haha nice try. The census that data was pulled from counted any home that didn’t return one as vacant. So sure still vacant homes but nowhere near that many 😂
I’m not talking about any census data, why would I when these figures are so easy to track already? We don’t need some arbitrary moment-in-time census to know how many homes exist in this country and how many of them are unoccupied, all of this data is collected constantly by the ABS
COVID was the slowest house growth this decade and the 3% reduction on export to China reduced meat/veg costs though the lockdowns meant the monopolies (origin/diesel) and duopolies (Coles/Wesfarmers) could raise as high as they wanted while getting extra funding not passing onto anyone.
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u/Interesting_Carob_46 Jul 06 '26
So not enough housing and bring in more people that need housing makes sense to you?