Australian homelessness soars amid national housing insecurity

[@Design_no]

Meanwhile Albo is giving away billions overseas while jetting about like some super model.

[@letmeexplain1816]

....AND he brought himself 2 new jets to fly around in !

[@Ajax-t1q]

Agree

[@realfamilyman]

Stoopid model more like it.

[@nikitaw1982]

PS I would rather be conscripted to a building sites for 2 years than Ukraine Russian boarder. Most be boys in high school would rather be on a construction sites than in some woke feminist class room getting fat weak uncoordinated and demoralised.

[@YvonneCrean]

He doesn't CARE!!!

[@avapountney]

Stop all foreign investment of residential properties.

[@richardliu7499]

Yes, you can stop but later you will cry when properties drops. All this rises are due to GREED!!!!. OK!!!!!!! Someone in control, try to push the price up. That is the problems because of GREED.

[@kyahblack3445]

Stop all investment in private residential housing…

[@baasheep4188]

build more houses will bring down house price

[@MaitreMark]

The person who owns the most rental properties in Australia is Kyle Minogue.

[@thatundeadlegacy2985]

I checked and its already hard to invest in australian property.

[@gregwooldridge8864]

The amount of damage from a political party that only got 30% of the australian vote.

[@Kelly-oe8kr]

Albo knows he's gone at the next election, it's like he doesn't care anymore. I dread to think the amount of damage this traitor can still do on his way out the door

[@matthewflinders1978]

Albo says “Great, let’s BRING IN MORE IMMIGRANTS AND MAKE IT EVEN WORSE!”

[@karenbatt1294]

They probably get money given to them

[@gdiwolverinemale4th]

Three million came under the Coallition

[@deanelari3927]

3000 Garzins will be housed before tax paying Australian's under Albo!

[@rod7177]

Why not? Works well in the UK!!!

[@vincentcacciola7161]

Don't forget the Ukrainians

[@rickman2267]

Migrants housed before needy Australians

[@karenbatt1294]

Disgusting isn't it.

[@chachi9945]

And $1B to Ukraine.

[@KT-bb1tb]

@sandponics Uber Drivers ?

[@BigGen222]

​@sandponics Seriously?

[@Billygoatsgrruff]

@sandponics don't be such a fart brain. They do shit menial jobs for peanuts, where as Aussies require full time secure jobs. Sick to death of gronks putting shit on Aussies

[@gayeflockheart4258]

So you're telling them to sell their house. Where do they go then? To the local BCF shop to buy a tent! These politicians are so out of touch with reality 😢

[@iamasmurf1122]

RBA are not politicians , if you are going to say something get your facts right

[@darrenheapy1265]

I totally agree with your comment. Our pollies are so out of touch

[@riffcaster]

Albanese is an alcoholic. Australia is being destroyed by a slurring alcoholic.

[@voxac30withstrat]

@@iamasmurf1122 The point still stands though.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@iamasmurf1122 all these politicians and bureaucrats are out of touch, they go from one well paid job to another - immune to the pain regular Australians are feeling. If they were in our situation you can be sure that they would not be rising interest rates and selling their houses to live in a tent.

[@WilliamLenert-tp6lx]

Imagine the fact Australia is a very large country with a very small population yet Australia is now the 2nd most Expensive country to buy a house. Its ruthless and nasty what corruption happens here

[@George-xb5ey]

How does Arizona survive

[@frankriquelme4623]

Best to start building in the dessert then Arizona Vegas anyone

[@KFBbythesea]

All by a organised dark Rome who have infiltrated every area of gov.

[@gavinpruden3306]

@@frankriquelme4623 only if the halfwits build more dams.

[@fatwombat2611]

Still plenty of land. Our populations growing faster than we can build houses and there are many reasons for that. This creates more demand than supply. We should be asking why this is and also if we want a large population anyway. Who does it benefit ?

[@Ralph-z3s]

Went to an auction with my daughter yesterday, ALL BIDDERS were Chinese and Indian who kept pushing up the price... this is getting beyond a joke... this idiot woke government have to go

[@bdstratton1979]

they should ban foreign ownership like they do in China

[@sharenclark392]

Did the same my son and I the only white people there. We of course missed out.

[@maijaliisa6300]

Received a letter in my mail box private buyer wanting to purchase my home by passing an agent . Have their own lawer available for settlement . Indian name !!

[@sunilsehrawat1880]

Ask your government to spend on infrastructure and housing rather than $30 billion dollars on submarines or Olympics

[@0Zolrender0]

@@sunilsehrawat1880 Maybe dont buy up our entire land.

[@LilyWhiteAkAConspiracyRealist]

Our government should be ASHAMED of themselves…. I NEVER thought I would see tent cities here in our once prosperous country ☹️

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

I never thought I'd see a activist as our PM

[@Jag.aus16]

Thanks to our worst-ever Govt in the history of Australia.

[@TavistockLiesBrainwashing]

Agree

[@Kristenoyinbo]

It's truly disgusting

[@wombathead87]

They don't feel shame by the looks of it.

[@adiintel1]

Imagine selling your house... but theres no houses to rent 😮 what do you do then streets?

[@axle.australian.patriot]

Houses aren't an essential need any more, they are an investment scam.

[@johnneill9740]

I know someone this happened to...

[@Ajax-t1q]

Yes because there are state and local government laws that prevent you from maybe two granny flats or van or tiny home. with your kids .

[@brx8r]

@@Ajax-t1q laws don't prevent anything

[@johnkennedy7012]

And then the council fines you for illegal camping , it’s illegal to be homeless too

[@felixroyan6615]

Vote him out

[@Julius2965]

It won't make a difference, they inherited this crappy economy from the liberals.

[@PhoenyxRein]

Wont make a difference. This is a worldwide issue created on purpose by the Globalist Elites. Canada - same. UK - same. US - Same.

[@leonharrison800]

@@felixroyan6615 For a Greens/ Independent controlled Labour government. 🇵🇸🙏👍❤️

[@Jag.aus16]

He is already out; it's just a matter of time.

[@leonharrison800]

@Jag.aus16 Wrong. A minority Labor with Greens and Independents in charge matters!!!🙏👍❤️

[@murat229]

Only Australian citizens should be able to buy property If your not a citizen you can not profit from our property

[@MaitreMark]

logic would say so.

[@QF_Flyer]

Agree in principle, though NZ implemented this (exceptions for Aussies & Singaporeans) and I don’t think it did a lot? We already punish foreign purchasers through taxation, just like stamp duty, you think the Govt is going to give up that gravy train? Unlikely.

[@devzy844]

To late unfortunately.

[@fluffycat6489]

Yes I agree fully with this it'll never happen tho. Any single Australian citizen who has a average income of $60,000 per year has no hope.

[@jactrich]

“Sell your property” to offshore Chinese investors. What a great plan Australia. This definitely won’t back fire

[@zbdot73]

I don't think it was ever meant to work. aka how to take over a country without ever firing a shot.

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

Boomers get more luxurious retirement if they sell to Chinese who usurp country from the boomer's children. Then they complain that millennials spend $5 on a coffee and that's why they can't afford a home lol.

[@Michelle-wp3jl]

Exactly!!! Drove up prices to ridiculous levels that ofcourse pleased many who were profiting but they didn’t realise their kids would suffer in the long run. Just hope their houses are big enough to house their kids & their future grandkids which I see is already a thing.

[@YvonneCrean]

Good point 👍

[@stepheniecopping7165]

And it will take them forever to change the rules, sick of this government

[@Nabraska49]

A refugee in your own country.. Way to go gov..

[@gayeflockheart4258]

Also landlord's can be very greedy..my eldest brother has 2 rental properties on the Gold Coast and he hasn't changed the rents in over 20 years and these units are in prime realty spots. He has just purchased a duplex and told me he will ask for rent that is $100 - $200 under market value as he thinks the rents are at criminal prices. I am very proud of him for his ethics😊

[@JohnnyRuso]

I’m on the Gold Coast and was homeless for months, living in sheds and in tents. Last week, I just found a single room for $380 a week on a handshake deal. So greatful to have a roof over my head, a bed and shower, but I remember, not that long ago, when that amount got you a 2bed unit to yourself. It’s so tough up here. People can be beyond greedy. It’s not until you lose everything, that you appreciate all things. Your brother sounds like a good man. Props to him and may blessings fall upon him.

[@user-oo8ei4lj6s]

God will bless him.

[@alanharrison573]

How many houses do Albo or Bowen or Chalmers own?

[@elisabethdabrowski1098]

What a decent human

[@gretavains8707]

​@@alanharrison573heaps

[@Tikka300-]

For FFS this putrid government has to go

[@teddougal5919]

ALL government has to go, we should at least give it a try. Shit floats to the top.

[@ricardoviolanti5780]

Very well said.

[@MaitreMark]

@@teddougal5919 yes, why do we let them have their governments? Why do we let them rule over us.... it makes no sense.

[@spongybone4071]

Yeah bring back the Libs. They were really great remember?! 😮

[@clinthufkie3242]

"You will own nothing and be happy."

[@kenkellalea329]

I got tent

[@ClovisPoint]

@@kenkellalea329 no where to put it ,buy a mobile home,park in a different spot each day before being moved on by the Govt Bullies/or animal farm dogs

[@7thNoteOfficial]

Silly humans still don't get it lmao

[@Rachel-h3n]

We will own nothing and they will be happy

[@user-oo8ei4lj6s]

We there already.

[@seairpierre6838]

So where are the 1000 immigrants a day Albo is importing being accommodated? And the 3000 fast tracked Gazans?

[@AussieDJRemixes]

Any public housing that was kept empty awaiting their arrival and probably motels paid for by the taxpayers.

[@SueNicholls-95]

Just look at the UK. All those thousands of single black fighting age males arriving by dinghy from France are put up in 3, 4 and 5 star hotels, food paid for, clothing, given money. That's what will happen here!!🤬🤬🤬

[@leeevans2929]

@@AussieDJRemixesplus they’ve done deals with landlords as in they’ll get a great rental return and when they move the government will refurbish the house at the tax payers expense

[@davepowelldrumz]

crown towers , the langham ect...

[@voxac30withstrat]

@@leeevans2929 A deal with landlords?? They haven't spoken to me. They wouldn't dare either.

[@Jhchah2492]

This is happening around all western countries🤔

[@michaellucas4873]

The situation is way worse in Oz, Canada & NZ than elsewhere, it really is.

[@micphoenix8200]

✡️

[@helenli7130]

It’s a agenda

[@argielita]

Because most are run by leftist governments hellbent on the great reset.

[@mattmccarthy330]

The US is in debt to the tune of 36 trillion and adding 1 trillion every 100 days. The interest alone on their debt is 1.7 trillion this year. The US dollar is the reserve currency so all international contracts are done in US dollars. That’s why all countries are experiencing inflation. The US is exporting inflation to the rest of the world. Bunker down it’s only going to get worse. They need a reset. Most times that reset is war!

[@OdinDogOfRoar2024]

Imagine what our family who were sent to fight muslims in Gallipoli would think if they could see our government put muslims in houses while their families live in Tents??? 🤔

[@KrishnaKumar-xw5wu]

And so many Aussies flying the Palestinian flag and marching for their support against Israel !!

[@OdinDogOfRoar2024]

@@KrishnaKumar-xw5wu so who cares??? Not real Aussies our families not only fought Muslims we also fought Anti Semites 👍

[@OdinDogOfRoar2024]

@@KrishnaKumar-xw5wu Jesus is King mate 👍

[@KrishnaKumar-xw5wu]

@@OdinDogOfRoar2024 What do you mean there’s no real Aussies marching for Palestine !! There’s thousands of Aussies doing it !!

[@OdinDogOfRoar2024]

@@KrishnaKumar-xw5wu lol no mate children of Lebanese refugees are and a few people who’s families migrated here post WW2 are no true Aussie supports Islam or gives a rats a•• about Palestine like i said our families fought Muslims in WW1 and Anti Semites in WW2 👍

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

Quick, Albo, bring in some more immigrants, you flop.

[@paulveenings6861]

You spelt flog wrong.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

@@paulveenings6861 Flop not flog.A flop is a dud..Lol

[@shelby6622]

Ooooohhhhh he will, don't you worry about that. He's so out of touch it ain't even funny.

[@dudemanismadcool]

Unfortunately he has about as much say in the matter as all the other western countries doing the same. It's annoying people keep acting like it's an Australian Labour party incentive. It's not, it's WEF through and through. Our masters.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

@@dudemanismadcool The UNA party would do the exact same thing; all the puppets work for the same people.

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

If I had a house I would NEVER sell. I would have to starve to death before that ever happened.

[@avapountney]

national disgrace to a party who is supposed to represent the working class.

[@davidvanderklauw]

Err.. that was about 70 years ago. Same name, but all the people have changed.

[@tubesurfer007]

If you made it compulsory for every politician to live in a rental property that is rundown or bad neighborhood, you would see magnificent changes in the property and rental market.

[@Kelly-oe8kr]

Ask politicians to live on jobseeker for a year then they are qualified to decide if these payments are high enough (they're not). A few politicians have tried it for 2 weeks as a publicity stunt, they all say how they struggled, but nothing ever changes.

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@Kelly-oe8kr : We need a time limit on the dole.

[@iamasmurf1122]

You have a point most houses in Australia are shitholes unless you are part of the elite living in fantasy land where everything’s luxury and all their mates live in luxury

[@maijaliisa6300]

@@buildmotosykletist1987 ONLY IF THERE ARE JOBS AVAILABLE ! TIME LIMIT FOR DOLE ,, NO JOBS ?????

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@@maijaliisa6300 : There's plenty of jobs, why are you on the dole?

[@adamfrancis1228]

National disaster shame on our governments😢

[@questioneverythingalways820]

You think it’s normal to pay a third of your wage to just having a roof? Ffs.

[@adiintel1]

I thought it was 40-60% of your wage. At 0.01 rates.

[@clinthufkie3242]

Should be less than 30%. Ideally.

[@AAAA-vu7fp]

Most renters give 90% of their wage

[@subbasslines]

Seen ad for open area no fencing parking spot for $200 a month

[@questioneverythingalways820]

@sandponics wrong. It’s the way people allow it to be.

[@Theholmesreport]

I'm a tradesman and have more brains than this lot . I can solve all of Australia's problem in one sentence. Cap immigration to 50k high skilled workers, build 150k homes a year, end foreign home ownership, end negative gearing and reduce the Size of federal government by 50%, build gas and nuclear plants to provide cheapest energy in the world. We are now a great nation once again

[@YvonneCrean]

Said this 25 years ago 😡

[@vernonwhite4660]

You are spot on! And I went to Uni😮

[@alanharrison573]

100% correct!

[@noremac4807]

Spot on!!!

[@cheylou1]

Your elected, come to Canada we will fight to get you elected😊❤

[@romemancer7905]

AND WHAT DO OUR POLLIES GET...HUGE PAYRISES AND BACKPAY FROM THEIR MATES AT THE UNFAIR WORK COMMISSION !!! ONE BIG RORT HUH ???

[@MaitreMark]

Pollies should be paid the average wage, then, if they wanted a pay increase they would have to give us all one too.

[@spongybone4071]

Unfair work commission for sure. Australian governments have a habit of creating these meaningless organisations(like the FWC) pretending to protect the little man. Pretending they care about equality and fairness. Truth is all of these organisations are corrupt, owned by big business and politicians and the little man always gets screwed. The RTA is another good example. If you're a tenant looking for help with this crowd, don't waste your time. Same with QCAT. They're all a joke!

[@seanlee9370]

I’m Ex Army Vet.. I Have Been Homeless, Battling NSW Housing Since September 2021 - I Have Given Up, In Poor Health And Awaiting Death!!! I HATE THIS SHIT ARSE OF A COUNTRY!!!!!

[@w00t777]

maybe spend your money on food instead of posting comments on KZbin on your smartphone 😂😂😂

[@seanlee9370]

My iPhone is 7yrs old, with a cracked screen. I’m not utilising a modern smartphone - cannot afford to get a new phone and or phone plan. But I do thank you for your comment - Not!

[@seanlee9370]

If you could pay for the ticket for me to New Zealand I would go in a heartbeat. I was treated much better in NZ, as a for Australian Vet then within my own country. Officially today - Centrelink payment of mine has been cancelled simply because I am unable to travel 280-300kms. I’ve Given Up On Life!! I’ve Lost Hope!!

[@Billygoatsgrruff]

@@w00t777 found the coward who would never serve his country. Go grab a kebab

[@kayehoulihan2728]

​@@w00t777 Disgusting comment to a vet, you are what's wrong with our country.

[@unsocialbutterfly5760]

I’m so scared of becoming homeless, once my landlord decides to sell the house I rent. What landlord will choose my family to rent to, when 2 are on disability and the other is on carers? My son has cancer, and my mother is in her 80s and I care for both of them. If I apply for a rental, along with 100 other applicants, some offering months of rent up front, why would a landlord choose us? They won’t. Will we end up living in a tent? I hear the government is bringing another 250,000 immigrants in. I’m all for a multicultural Australia, but where will they live, if I can’t even find a place to rent?

[@whodiedlee]

yea sell your home you're paying 750+ a week in mortgage repayments to try find a rental for 750+ a week ok lol

[@dudemanismadcool]

I'll see yall in the tent city

[@faithingod5533]

Easy fix.. Just bring in a few million migrants. Job done.

[@ssuwandi3240]

How? Pls entertain the rest

[@joannemurdock7899]

ALLEGEDLY pozzie schemes dont work

[@felixnewman2473]

And call the homeless racist for complaining. Job done.

[@TheAxelay]

Should be a punishable crime here!!! I have nothing but disdain and contempt for our governments etc.

[@Zilron38]

I'm renting and I can tell you if my landlord decides I need to move out, I actually don't feel confident I would find another place, I will have to resort to family so I have a warm place to sleep.

[@rennmaxbeta]

Sadly agree.. either live in a car, or on the streets

[@meplife7313]

yes agree... although some of us don't have family to rely on either.

[@johntaylor3889]

What is she telling you is don't buy food to pay the mortgage, or sell the house you can't afford to pay for and live in a tent! She couldn't care less!

[@pattykake7195]

She probably owns multiple homes, and rents them out for top dollar…🤑

[@daniellemoebus9346]

Michelle Bullock is only delivering the facts. Something that the gutless government is choosing to hide and ignore. She is not responsible for the inflation problem, that would be this useless government handing cash out to mates for things like housing funds that haven’t even started a house, green energy fantasies that have only increased your power bills, increases to the public service so that they can control you more, and subsidies and handouts that make them look good short term. The RBA is trying to fix the fact, but can only do so much while this stupid government’s spending is absolutely out of control.

[@MaitreMark]

It was not a press release or a news interview, what we saw was reptilian humor. They watch for fun and giggles and the sheep are oblivious.

[@peterward9446]

Walking the dog in a public park yesterday evening & noticed some cheap blue tarps strung up in a large clump of bushes - on closer inspection there was a *_family_* there in the bushes setting up camp for the night ... this was a major regional city & I was visiting friends there who advised me that this was now "the new normal" ... aussies sleeping rough in the bushes in public parks - *_now the new normal_* ... beyond surreal.

[@pollinatorgardens]

it is all by design.

[@Mick-h3t]

100% right conclusion

[@deesymons8545]

Totally correct

[@sylviam6535]

This is indecent in a country with so many resources and such a small population.

[@alanharrison573]

Its self inflicted, because of deceitful legacy media and people vote for corruption!

[@KT-bb1tb]

Have a Guess at How Many of Albozzo's Immigrants are Living in Tents ?

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Australia's population was a little over 18 million when Howard took office in 1996. When Albo took office in 2022, it was a little over 26 million. That's a difference of 8 million. 8 million in a country with a NEGATIVE FERTILLITY RATE. 8 million under predominantly Liberal governments. How many of the LNP's immigrants are living in tents?

[@rennmaxbeta]

Zero

[@gretavains8707]

Zero😢

[@junebaldwin5352]

They would think themselves lucky to live in a housing commission home like albo did

[@josegeraldmanguino1530]

I’m American living in Australia for 2 decades. I’m working in bank for the past 18 years up to now. I can confirm, majority of Australians are big spenders, borrows a lot and have little to none of savings or emergency funds. I always think on how Aussies will survive if economy went bad. Now that it’s happening, I’m not surprised at all. I know this day will come. I hope this difficult time will be a great learning lesson to everyone that it’s not about the money, it’s the mindset and discipline on managing your own finances

[@foreverhungry7777]

This is true. I used to know an Aussie who lost her white collar job and she was stressing out that her and her boyfriend could "only" have a $20 lunch budget daily and would not be able to buy extra snacks and drinks. "We'll be eating mince every night" she cried. They both made over $80K a year, I made $30K and I ate better because I cook everything from scratch. And she did not even leave her mothers home until she was 36 to boot. I know Aussies with no kids who eat out 3 tims a day, smoke, go drinking every weekend, buy $800 concert tickets, take overseas trips but claim they cannot afford a second-hand car. No, they just put priorities on luxuries vs necessities.

[@natcostanzo]

I heard that each immigrant gets over $150000 to move here to help them buy a house we get nothing being born here it seems wrong!

[@gretavains8707]

Yep that's Australia. Exactly why I hate the country I was born in.

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

She couldn't care less because she will never be losing her house!

[@johnschannel449]

Her mansion more like it

[@MaitreMark]

@@johnschannel449 with a pool, sauna and torture dungeon.

[@noosatraders]

Australia is a really harsh place to live these days and unfortunately most Australians couldn’t care less about others unless it affected them personally, such is the Australian character now .

[@MeditateMeHigher]

Nailed IT

[@scorps-hl8ue]

Absolutely correct there! Everyone cares about themselves and there Government handouts so they can go pokies have that wine there cigarettes.. I have wondered about Voting how it works and who it works for...I've narrowed it down to now speaking to people that rely on voting because mainly there Pension there every week benefits? They don't care about anything else I'm sure I'm a 100% on the ball with this.. Because everytime I mention what they aren't doing I always get well if I don't this or that your never see change and I said WTF everytime it's been said on national tv what they promise nec minute months or just about a year everything backflips..and that every dame year every party has done this going back on there promises I'm now 49yrs I stopped believing in Governments when I was 18-19yrs let's put it this way ANTI...my first time I've ever voted was last year yes last year I've said and I keep to my word I will never vote for liers ever and what did I go and do....yes I thought ok I hate hearing people having a go at me because I don't vote you don't have a say...a fffff n say in what was my question and your vote I say did you have a say and did it come through with flying colours all those votes for what 30yrs plus NO... really people aren't going tell you the truth why they really vote for....they know deep dwn there's never gonna be change! Every Government formed in the world hasnt Changed for the better to much blunging involved Australia is a great example so corrupted depressing frustrating every word under the Aussie sun the lies that come outer there mouths before being elected flows like the murry river it spills over it's banks

[@gretavains8707]

Absolutely 💯 percent correct. I live in a small village. Australian's are bastards

[@52Drew]

Same problem here in New Zealand, UK. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see the causes, the Real Estate business, uncontrolled immigration and overseas investment. Until these 3 issues are addressed there can never be any normality of the cost of housing for the citizens of the country.

[@OdinDogOfRoar2024]

RBA- “You Will Own Nothing In This Country Unless You “Identify” as Aboriginal or Are Islamic and From Gaza, You Will Live In A Tent & Be Happy About It” 👍

[@OdinDogOfRoar2024]

@sandponics Aussies aren’t “Seeking Asylum” like Whinging Muslims are 👍

[@Billygoatsgrruff]

@sandponics how about you run back to your rubble

[@Kelly-oe8kr]

The government has already shown they don't give a crap about indigenous people. Once their Voice failed to win over voters the government abandoned places like Alice Springs

[@lloydsingline340]

​@sandponics You're not Australian or are you wealthy?

[@DianaMcFerran]

​@sandponicsrubbish, it's not whinging if you're living in a tent and immigrants get housed and given money! Your attitude is un- Australian.

[@quantumeyes8546]

Labor did promise building social housing. Where are they now?

[@waynetowers5828]

Immigrants have taken them

[@relaxedmuffin3666]

Socialist housing isn't what we want. Normal housing is better.

[@SueNicholls-95]

Knowing this bunch of Labor incompetent clowns they have the housing in the "planning" stage along with all the "plans" they promised before he election!!

[@quantumeyes8546]

@@waynetowers5828 So they are not built for Australians?

[@maijaliisa6300]

ALBO IS STILL GONNA BUILT HOUSES THEY GONNA ,THEY HAVE A PLAN !!

[@Nothinglefttosay]

I’m homeless in 6 days because I asked for my air conditioner to be repaired.. in February. Since then the second air conditioner failed.. it’s now September. The land lord is claiming my 2 weeks in advance as a non refundable deposit. She has boosted the rent by 20% to ensure we can’t afford it. I’m on a disability pension with a brain tumour and chronic asthma. Gotta love what Asian landlords can get away with. I’m not racist but it seems a lot of them don’t care about our rental laws and rights.

[@spongybone4071]

My advice is don't leave and quit paying citing unlivabke conditions. Apply for your bond back yourself online and let it go to dispute. Stick your heels in and save as much as you can in the time it takes them to throw u out. It will take them months. Don't go until the sheriff drags u out snd don't answer the door to anyone. If he changes the locks, that's illegal. Break in as it's your house and u can stay there indefinitely by law

[@DavidJones-ye6wy]

Why can’t they hold meetings via video conference. They did it during COVID lockdown. No jet setting required.

[@trustedpestmanage]

Thank you for talking about it every day Paul - politicians are definitely not taking this seriously - or don’t care because they are sheltered from it plus their wages go up every year

[@Hapkido82AUS]

The same RBA that said rates wouldn't go up until 2024, started putting them up 2 years earlier. And now says, just sell your house if you cant affoed repayments. What in the actual F..

[@Nathan-yy2xs]

I would have thought people would go out and protest about things like this. Not go out and protest for Palestine that has nothing to do with Australia. Shows me something not normal about some people in Australia.

[@frankcellini9363]

It was the Liberal government, in power for 10 years, that did nothing to stop home prices going up and rents increasing. This didn’t happen overnight. Once again we repeat , negative gearing and capital gains tax discount and not building enough housing while bringing hundreds of thousands of migrants into Australia and allowing banks to lend huge amounts to people putting Australians into debt, some of the highest in the world!

[@frankriquelme4623]

100% this did not happen overnight it was planned many young Australians moving overseas to Asia I’m one of them why work to gain nothing here might as well live comfortably over there.

[@okangulal2849]

Crazy how I had to go all the way down here to see a sensible comment. Sky news commentators are so delusional

[@lloydsingline340]

​@okangulal2849 What's your recommendation re presenters / journalists?I prefer Sky,Australia, because their journalists are way ahead - and I do look around, listen to RN Breakfast ( ABC ) for example.

[@Lachlan124-b1n]

Correction Liberal and Labor governments did nothing to stop home prices going up! This is from an independent's perspective.

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

​@@okangulal2849But here you are hypocrite

[@SabineWald_NowHere]

I started traveling after the crazy lockdowns and have realised that it is much cheaper to rent a place in Europe (even when they say it is the most expensive city in Europe) where you spend 15 min traveling to work, not 2 hours in one direction. Our government is shameful. Unfortunately, we often trust and support them. May we wake up for once and say no to our corrupted real estate and the leaders.

[@chasefancy3092]

Don't make any excuses to me. Australia was barely fit to be an "English Penal Colony." (Ref: Sliders: Love Gods). China has a population of 1.4 billion. India has a population of 1.4 billion. Are you honestly telling me Australia cannot take care of 28 million people on THE ENTIRE CONTINENT? Unbelievable!

[@leisajarrett393]

Our pollies are sell outs

[@meplife7313]

Sadly it's true... they're letting in so many immigrants when there just isn't the infrastructure in place to support that many people. A lot of people are stressed out here that's for sure.

[@gretavains8707]

All going to the first nation's people. We come second. That's exactly how Australia is. I am used to it. 63years of it. 😊

[@chasefancy3092]

@@gretavains8707 You’re leaders are absolute degenerates. They don’t even know we are living in a simulated world inside a simulated universe with Alien Beings. China woke up in 1997. The CCP has had 27 years of learning how to use this world. President Harry Truman should never have concealed this in 1951.

[@lesleyosborne9319]

Its AWEFULL. Everyone DESERVES a Roof over Their Head and every Kids DESERVES a WARM BED. HOW CAN Albo and Jacinta Allen, Claire, SLEEP at Night. Its Feezing cold and Wet. I've NEVER Seen the Country in such bad state with People SUFFERING. Thanks to Lisa Wilkerson David Sharaz we ended up with Albo. Pathetic.

[@CanYouDigIt34]

Yep, this country is cooked. It had a good run, but housing crises, uncompetitive economy (beside the resources such as iron ore, what do we actually do here??), self-inflicted ill-advised climate policies to please the loud yet radical minority, self-inflicted mass immigration (I am not against immigration, I am a migrant myself - but against an immigration without any plan and proper support as far as infrastructure, hospitals, schools, jobs, oh and yeah housing). Our economy is shambles and politicians divert public opinion to things that aren't important so it covers how inept they are tackling big and crucial issues.

[@stevenhickey326]

You have won the internet today. Well said , agree 1000% Im in USA , same reasons apply.

[@Martian74]

They need to stop the the Negative Gearing tax loophole. They need to put the money they will get from negative gearing and put it into a fund to pay for actual houses being made. Around $10 billion a year is lost to negative gearing. Capital gains tax needs to change too.

[@spongybone4071]

Too right mate

[@Sunlitsneeze]

The issue isn’t interest rate, the issue is with house prices. Land sprawl, constant policy of incentivising property as investment, refusing to build, increasing migration.

[@balung]

Sell your home to newly arrived Indian economic migrants, i dont think so.

[@NoelineHobbs]

Thousands and thousands of of people commenting on how bad this government is and yet we can’t get rid of them The average intelligent Aussie knows we are in very deep trouble Our future and our children’s future being destroyed with all this.wrong migration pouring into our country Aussies suffering

[@YvonneCrean]

Just have to work hard to get them out coming next election. LNP does not have the union's millions...the rotten green preferences both allowing a woeful corrupt Labor party in. LNP needs lots of donations and our Aussie Elon Musk 🥴

[@humble_frog]

hope they raise rates even higher sick of all these speculators buying all the property

[@jpgrygus]

Inflation is NOT 4%. look around you....what has only gone up 4%? I see 10%, 15%, 20% plus price rises on virtually EVERYTHING. And for the low income workers, good luck trying to get a pay rise close to 4% pa.

[@Thefatcatcrochets24]

I've noticed a lot of international sites talking about how ridiculously expensive Australia's housing is, and the shock at the basic old dumps that cost a fortune. One American KZbinr was shocked at how basic a 1.5 million dollar house is in Melbourne. In Tasmania, over half a million will buy you a house that hasn't been touched since the 1970s and is in a small town.

[@somethingelse9535]

Melbourne is now officially cheap, slumped to 5th place. Both Perth and Adelaide have moved above Melbourne in the average housing price list.

[@christopherpekel6096]

​@@somethingelse9535officially cheap? Compared to what?

[@somethingelse9535]

@@christopherpekel6096 Perth and Adelaide ;)

[@Mark-ce9xh]

Australians celebrate Gallipoli. "We shall not forget". What a joke. Now they let the people they faught against into their country, give them free handouts and let their own people live on the streets. What an absolute plonker of a system. Those people died for nothing. Lets not forget this joke.

[@rinzler9775]

And they keep bringing in people from overseas....

[@edmasi]

Trump is our only hope in the U.S….again.

[@YvonneCrean]

👍 yes

[@sergiozammel8261]

Well, if he loses the election in the US he said that he will leave US. We can bring him here to this paradise in the Pacific, to actually run the place like a real business. Yes, I bet he will froth at the mouth like an agonal nursing home patient waiting to pass to the other side, with that proposition !!

[@Daniel-ld7xs]

@@sergiozammel8261oh serious? He said he’d leave?

[@edmasi]

@@sergiozammel8261 I’ll come and bring my production company/build the economy, mate? Where are you located?

[@sergiozammel8261]

@@Daniel-ld7xs Yep, he said it. And he's right ,as they will hound him into the ground.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

Where else do you buy a product that sells for more than the purchase price as it gets old and worn out? Buy a new car and drive it off the show room floor and it drops 20% on resale, buy some machinery, and it depreciates. Buy a new home and sell it the next day for 150% of the price you paid for it. keep it for 5 years and get double your money back on a used worn out house. Seriously, who came up with this ridiculous idea.

[@robbieblackburn2880]

Land value

[@theendmyfriend]

Wealth creation by inflation. Bankers and elites lords gentry get to send people back to peasantry. Asset value rise while wages labour disconnect currency buying power falls. Trying to climb a socio weatlh status ladder that is expanding. Wealth gap widens. The average wage earner no longer earns more than expansion and are trapped. Neo Feudalism Totalitarianism. You will own nothing and be happy.

[@robstone4537]

Land. They are not making any more of it.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

I have seen some land with really poor houses go up by 200%. That's some pretty extreme inflation on indexing for land values lol Do you not stop to realize that we have the most artificially overinflated house/land prices in the world.

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

New Zealand and other countries have banned immigration what should we do as Australians

[@bbbnick9197]

You call it national homeless insecurities are you kidding me

[@MaitreMark]

it is reptilian humor.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

ALL governments have been kicking this can down the road for decades.

[@Ajax-t1q]

Agree

[@Wartai]

Politicians get pay rises, Albo got $200,000 pay rise since he was PM could have helped this crisis, his overspending is whats causing the inflation/cost of living

[@vmura]

Albo is a narc and he does not give 2 hoots

[@SV0747]

368 billion for submarines

[@subbasslines]

That would be a lot of houses, better spent on new technology instead of cold war technology 🤦

[@kathrynpatterson7986]

430million for a yes vote

[@Prognosis__]

Be prepared for a crash

[@gdiwolverinemale4th]

When one lives beyond his means ....

[@barrysmith9411]

Yeah a great opportunity to buy up more assets

[@kymrittchen688]

Sorry Paul, I'm a renter in Victoria. our Landlord is not even Australian, they are a greedy foreigner, put the rent up when they feel like it, don't fix anything & they get away with it? Go figure!

[@Nothinglefttosay]

I’m in Brisbane… same shit here. I’m homeless in 6 days

[@stepheniecopping7165]

No wonder we’re all so depressed

[@majinsaiyan8255]

You’ll never see a newly arrived migrant on the street. It’ll be as rare as seeing a Northern white Rhino in the wild.

[@felixroyan6615]

Then why bring more people from Gaza?

[@TrevorLeslie-b1m]

Because there is a shortage of workers, well thats what they keep telling us total BS

[@leeevans2929]

@@TrevorLeslie-b1mproblem is those people will never work a day in their life

[@jonathanchant6655]

​@@TrevorLeslie-b1m yep bullshit. Out of the million they have let in only 40000 working. Rest are bludging. The fools that voted these idiots in

[@lloydsingline340]

The UN wants that.Spread the problem from the Middle East.

[@somethingelse9535]

Palestinian refugees have destroyed every country they move to, Albo obviously want's them to do the same here, distract the population from his disastrous choices.

[@rachaelsealey1259]

That’s because all the rentals, were turned into Airbnb’s there’s no smaller housing for sale everything is ridiculously overpriced and the inflation on living expenses has gone through the roof.

[@becrobinson2387]

Anarchy seems very appealing atm..

[@raniburtenshaw1619]

Where are they supposed to go? Imagine having a rental market that actually existed let alone affordable!

[@Deano00777]

I’m sorry but if your mortgage eats up half of your wage, and your interest is 6-7%, you shouldn’t have bought the house. Interest rates are still very low. 1.99% mortgages are not normal and it’s how we got into this mess.

[@mikldude9376]

It’s not just the rates bud , it’s also the cost of living crisis, usually if you are making payments, you can get by in a decent economy, but everything has gone up from last year , electricity, gas , rent , land rates by 35% in Victoria, car rego , fuel’s been up for some years now , food , medical prescriptions, and everything thing else you can think of. Add to that , the dick head prime minister is bringing in more people from overseas , when we don’t have the housing or the infrastructure for the people that are already here . Hospitals are over worked and under resourced, as are our ambulances, and police , even our defences are under staffed. If government has one single thing to do , it is to be a caretaker for the people and the country. And Labor has made a right royal cock up of it .

[@zappy7393]

urgh...another..."rates arent that high, we had 18% 20 years ago" comment. All ego with no actual knowledge of the situation and difference between now and then.

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

1.99% mortgages are not normal and it’s how we got into this mess. Agree but a house is not a jetski, people buy them because they need a place to live. It's not exorbitant spending when you can't afford the mortgage repayments to your tiny, dilapidated house.

[@Deano00777]

@@JohnSmith-pn1vv I’m not talking about the people who bought a modest home…im talking about the people that maxed out their borrowing capacity when rates were low to keep up with the Jones’. I know many people who earn less than 75k who were borrowing beyond their means. The government is not going to save you this time. They’ve all had to sell.

[@meplife7313]

@@Deano00777 I earn less than $75k and I attempted a few years ago to get a home loan. The max they'd lend me was $300k. When I went looking suddenly all the prices were out of my range. And if I had borrowed $300k I would've been maxing out my mortgage payments. Now I'm stuck renting and paying almost half my income on rent. So I don't win either way. This country is now designed for the wealthy.

[@oatenroberts]

Sell your house but then pay the same as your mortgage in rent.

[@Ragnar6000]

Scrap negative gearing at the very least it will scare off the Real Estate speculators!

[@Spring4life-i3e]

They should tax the rich more and redistribute to the poor, and remove negative gearing. A higher land tax should be imposed on those who own investment properties. I feel sorry for the new generation because they may never be able to afford a house, or if they do, they’ll spend their whole lives working hard and still struggle to pay it off. In 10 years, fewer and fewer babies will be born as couples won’t be able to afford having children. I am also an immigrant who came to Australia 20 years ago. I used to work overtime, sometimes holding two or even three jobs. I lived in a shared house with others, and now I own my home, but I never wanted house prices to increase.

[@Jay-hv5hf]

Housing is a right

[@kimcrowe1648]

It’s despicable that the Reserve Bank Governor thinks its ok for some hard working Australians to have to sell their home because they are so fixed on Interest rates as the only cure for too much spending as they see it. Whilst we ordinary folk are spending more for our food, electricity, gas, fuel, rent.. We (the low and middle income) are not spending on new cars, overseas holidays, jewellery etc. this is where the old tax system of higher taxes on luxury goods and services worked better than gst.

[@TKsolotravel]

And Albo continues to increase migrant numbers of low income or no income who must be housed and given$$$$ in living expenses. LPG in Aus is also @pprox 300% higher than countries who have to import it. Hence inflation rockets ahead her, lpg gas in vic for single person $1200 and its used sparingly

[@foreverhungry7777]

One thing this government is doing is putting a stop to student visas. God knows how many used student visas to get permanent residency under the Coalition. They even laugh and admit to it. The Liberal Party set up this crisis over the last decade and now here we are.

[@beverleylavender4214]

We had to relocate from NSW to live with family in QLD because after the Northern Rivers big floods our rent went from $400 a week to $700! To try and keep us in the house they did offer to drop it to $650! My partner had lost his job because his shop was literally washed away in the flood, my hours had been cut back because of the floods….we had no choice but to leave before we became homeless and on the streets like hundreds of others in the area! It was our home and I miss it terribly, I still cry myself to sleep.

[@DavidHopkinson-l8j]

Two weeks to flatten the curve... 4 years later.....

[@kittykat5523]

And guess who will snap up those homes from australians having to sell them.....

[@Nothinglefttosay]

Zimbabweans…? 😂😂😂

[@Galactic-Witch]

I pay 70% of my income to rent!! As a single mother it is not a pleasant existence - and that is all it is, an existence. I am certainly not living!

[@spongybone4071]

I feel for u. The sad reality is the majority of renters out there paying off their landlords investment property mortgages are poor single mothers with kids

[@peternicholson1700]

It's all disgusting as are the Reserve bank and many politician creatures.

[@reneperin8742]

If you own your house it's a fantastic time to sell and buy another, if you don't own a house and want to buy you need to win the lotto, these people don't live in the real world

[@foreverhungry7777]

Even if you win the lotto you cannot afford a property. Some of these houses go for up to 6 million or more in Sydney and paying over a million to live in a unit is pure insanity.

[@maherkoriem3227]

Albo get out of government you drove Australians up the wall

[@lukei6255]

Very embarrassing for Australians. One of the richest countries and cannot provide housing for everyone. The Saudi or brunei royal family takes much better care of its citizens.

[@fiction5967]

Our forefathers and Anzacs would be asking how we let this happen. So a home even if you work full time is a privilege not a right. Both sides of government have failed us.

[@goldenautumn3073]

This isn't Australia anymore.

[@MeditateMeHigher]

Ye it's India

[@Lo.0se]

NEGATIVE GEARING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! struggling to pay your mortgage...........at least you have a mortgage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!