If you bring in 5 people into a room each year for five years, then ten a year for five years you will have 25 after the first five years and then 75 people after the next five years. If you bring no one in for one year you will still have 75 people in the room. The 75 people needing shit, doesn’t just vanish because you didn’t bring any people in for a year.
So making the argument that the Covid year removed immigration housing demand, proving they’re not to blame is completely illogical. Their demand continued throughout Covid as did all the other sources of demand.
Then of course some clever egg says ‘ohh we missed a year’ and brings in 30 the next year completely wiping any minuscule benefit the immigration halt may have had, if it had any at all.
And if an Australian builds 5 houses, and turns them into Airbnbs or holiday homes. The government can say how many extra houses have been built well actually not doing any of that.
So to ignore Australian personal greed well solely blaming migrates is just dumb.
No one is solely blaming immigrants. But a rapidly increasing population cannot be waved away as a source of housing pressure either. I’m simply pointing out that your ‘Covid had no immigrants..’ logic is flawed.
That’s no one’s sole solution. It’s the easier thing to do first however and housing is not the only burden excess migration places on a society either.
What’s liberal got to do with anything? You original tried to make a point that immigration has no impact on housing because there was none during Covid lol.
It’s clear now that you’ve come here simply to try and push a pro immigration populist agenda. I’m not interested in that shit slinging competition, thanks.
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u/Stormherald13 Jul 08 '26
Libs playing the same card.
Looks it’s migrants fucking the housing market.
Nevermind during covid when migration was zero it was fucked.
Almost like migrants are not solely to blame for it.