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?

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    7 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
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      7 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.