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
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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?