Over here in W.A the vacancy rental market is so low at around 0.7%, on top of that rental prices are inflating, and owners are becoming stricter to who they rent to. Building companies are collapsing, which keeps home buyers who is building in rental homes longer as well as a lot of foreign people coming over for work and snapping up the rentals. The government needs to really step up. Families are living in their cars as well as tents, but government is coming down hard on people staying in public areas like carparks etc. Council housing has anlong waiting list, close to a decade wait.
@23rdsphotographyandaerials935 ай бұрын
I've been camping out for nearly a year at this point, it sucks but you gotta make the most of it. I'm lucky I've been into bushcraft and survival skills for years and have a good hidden camp that's quite comfortable for now. I wouldn't be camping in these tent communities if I want to keep my possessions.
@shaneb46125 ай бұрын
My thoughts & prays are with you.
@leighhattan57955 ай бұрын
Similar happening in NZ, large amount of council houses have been sold last few decades, record migration, building costs sky high etc
@redhorsburgh..23455 ай бұрын
Australians are faced with this... And our government is giving 40 million each to the U.K and America to support their submarine programs and at the same time some states are banning caravans on private land.
@threestumps75605 ай бұрын
About 6 months ago Victoria announced a plan to rebuild the state's entire public housing stock including demolishing and rebuilding 44 high rise towers. It will take many years to do this but at least it's a long term plan. Australia's mistake was to accelerate its migration in take during the past two years after covid for no apparent good reason. This creates the mismatch between demand and housing supply. A lot of home builders are going out of business at the moment.
@barnowl.5 ай бұрын
Some reasons why . . . * big migration numbers * most want to live in the big cities , not willing to live in towns too far away * tax policies - easy negative gearing to own a number of homes, low capital gains tax, big stamp duty. *huge deposits required as homes are pricey * building tradespeople are attracted to the big roadworks and other buildings where salaries are higher * lack of enough building tradespeople *floods and fires have destroyed many homes *landlords turn homes into B&Bs for tourist market * high numbers of overseas students coming to qualify here take up housing *building industry was unable and still is unable to get building supplies due to Co-vid fall-out *Aussies like homes that have space - don't like apartment living *older suburbs do not want apartments in their area * retirement village prices high *older generation staying in big homes longer due to better health and government aid incentives to do so to decrease load on nursing homes. *slow state and local government action to meet housing needs re land and housing development
@saraphys55555 ай бұрын
As a person born in the 80's, and a Home-owner... Its not that there's a housing shortage... ...its that houses are being bought up as "investment properties", and people who WANT to buy a house, even rent...cant, because the prices have been gouged so badly that no-one can afford it. ...Im "lucky"...I had inhertence from my dead parents. When I bought my house 2 years ago, I paid almost $400k...the area is now worth $550k... The market is out of control; and people buying up houses for investments, need to make money back, so their rental properties have jacked-up prices to be able to afford the loan repayments. In the year I was "homeless" between my two properties, I saw SEVERAL houses go on and off the market under different sellers, because they fell through on loan repayments, because they couldn't get renters in to pay that stupidly high rent! So... Everything is whacked, here. There are literally blocks of houses where no-one is living in some States... its out of control!
@WillisSchwarz5 ай бұрын
It's a perfect storm. Civic caused shortages in supplies, builders took on too much work being egged on by government grants. When cost of materials went up, builders went broke as the material costs were higher than the contracts. Now instead of freeing up laws to allow tiny homes to fix the issue, they opened the flood gates to migration making everything worse. Same amount of homes for more people, which is driving inflation making houses more expensive to build in a time of raising interest rates.
@grahamejohn68475 ай бұрын
You are right about foreign ownership but there's also a greed factor by real estate agents keeping houses unoccupied for longer than they should to drive rents up. Government incompetence in a lot of Public Housing being vacant because it needs repairs that should have been done years ago. Add in a shortage of people in the building industry to build new homes. It all becomes a perfect storm of homelessness that has been building up for years. Two government sites in my area together hold about 24 vacant cottages. One was an ex-mental health facility the other a Federal govt. facility for helping returned servicemen . Both are becoming more run down as politicians dither over their fate.
@joandsarah775 ай бұрын
The government is about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike to quote an old Aussie saying. For young single men willing to work, outback jobs tend to be one way to save.
@TheCaptainbeefylog4 ай бұрын
From what I've seen of it, a lot has to do with rents that have jumped hugely over the last 12-18 months. Young professionals get priority over families, especially if you have pets. When you drive through Gympie (about 1.5 hours north of Brisbane) every bit of green space is filled with tents, vans etc. Most are locals displaced by people moving from Brisbane, who couldn't afford the rents there any more. Caravan parks from Noosa to Coolangatta are booked out. FB Marketplace has miles of listings for plots of land on larger properties for rent. "Tiny homes" are insanely expensive as they're luxury items mainly and only well-paid middle class, hippie types need apply. A "portable" starts around $3k (pretty old and beat up) up to $40k+ (new). Personally I live in a tent and have done for more than a year. It's 30'x24', so fairly big as tents go. My property is about 4 hours drive west of Brisbane. There's no grid - water/phone/electricity/sewage/mobile. I live off sattelite phone/internet, solar panels w/batteries and generator back-up, tank water (I have to drive into the nearest town to buy water at 1,000lt per trip -$6- or get a tanker to deliver it with a minimum order of $350 for 10,000lt) and a septic tank. I've saved up enough to get a few old containers to start converting into a house. I'm on a disability pension so things take a while to get done or to have the money to do them. I'm just glad that I grew up with nothing and expect nothing from life, so I can easily live a minimalist lifestyle.
@jojet19805 ай бұрын
A big chunk of ex long term rentals are now air bnb properties as there’s more money in air bnb
@shaneb46125 ай бұрын
There are so many that have been turn into air bnb's all over the country. It's bloody disgusting.
@suenichol65545 ай бұрын
Wake up ,Australia. We don't want to end up like places overseas. We are proud of the way we treat and pay our workers. What is going wrong, that we can't afford housing. The government we have elected is letting us down, put your heads together and find a solution. Looks like a revolution is not in the distanced future. I am a proud Australian, but where are the people to sort this mess. Leave politics out of the equation and get on to fixing things.
@shaneb46125 ай бұрын
If you a politician, your on good money, so they don't really can about the little bloke. As long as they have a nice fancy roof over their heads, they don't care. Why don't we force these politician to put granny flats/tiny homes in their extensive backyards. For the homeless & those who are struggling.
@robparsons15275 ай бұрын
I am almost 70, disabled (lungs, heart & spine), and I'll be on the street on the 10th of April. Probably dead shortly thereafter. All I get is a pension so it seems to be a case of, leave them (old, infirmed ) as low priority because they'll die soon and that clears up a section without any effort or cost, (well sure feels like it anyway). There is simply nothing affordable for me period. I think maybe worse is yet to come.
@rosssemmens48265 ай бұрын
It is simple, the builders don't build so they can up the price when they do, and there are houses laying empty, owned by oversea people, just waiting for the prices the max out.
@suenichol65545 ай бұрын
We have also had a lot of environmental damage lately due to bushfire and flooding. We lost a lot of houses and haven't had enough time to get ahead. I was a bit angry at the government until I thought back over the mo ths and years of the wild weather we have had
@mandyspacek10875 ай бұрын
Here in Australia our Labor government has turned it's back on the people and nobody saw this coming, they sold out to the WEF and multi national corporations, greed is a huge factor as government officials are buying up many properties themselves. Governments keep selling off public housing so there is now very little left. Foreign ownership is out of control. The list goes on.....
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
BS. You voted for the liberals for 11 years and now blame labor for not fixing the mess in 3 years. I’m getting ready to leave earth, but I do hope you all get exactly what you vote for and live to see the consequences
@shaneb46125 ай бұрын
You are correct. There is a lot of homes owned by foreign investors, that are vacant. They don't give a sh!t about our housing crisis. The other thing is that, there is a shortage of young people going into the building trades. The foreign immigration policy that expedites skilled workers Visa's, excludes tradie's. The housing crisis is an Australian epidemic & inflation is just one part of it. The government had brough in a scheme, so that people can use their superannuation for a home. There are also first home owner grants that can be accessed, but you have to be a first home owner. I've rented all my life, now I'm at the stage where I want to buy a house & land, but don't have enough capitol yet. I'm hoping to buy a cheap block of land somewhere & put a modular home/cabin/tiny house on it. The flat I live in, in the outer suburb of Brisbane is cheap. That's why I haven't moved in over 10 years. The rent has gone up, but it manageable at the moment. I want to say, my thought & Prays are with those who are doing it tough.
@thomasthompson82885 ай бұрын
You say you want a revolution 🎶🎵🎶
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
I’m on a pension and was able to buy a 4 bed house in a small town for 90k. There’s plenty of work in the country but people insist on staying in large towns and cities and then whining about immigration that’s needed to fill the jobs in the country.
@larryflynt-jk1ze5 ай бұрын
Local and state governments have been getting lobbied by developers for the last couple of decades to drip feed available land. Thus keeping the prices high. It's called land banking. Keep the supply low on purpose so people have to pay a premium.
@shaunbanner67745 ай бұрын
Something very odd is going.! on because im hearing the same things going on in the USA. Canada. Australia. New Zealand. Uk. All the same problems all at the same time plus all the same excuses been given like unprecedented number's of migrants coming in or not enough houses being built. And then saying that imagration is needed to fill a skill shortage in the country! Really.?? A shortage in all of these countries all at the same time.? On different continents? This makes no sense what so ever.! This has to be coordinated and by design by people somewhere.!
@leejames17925 ай бұрын
Absolutely, been saying the same, not a coincidence seeing the exact same going on in all these countries, clearly part of a globalist plan, nation states are being destroyed and its on purpose.
@pc25555 ай бұрын
I lived in North America in 2 very different locations (mainly due to this crisis) in Victoria BC , Canada from 2002-2021 and now Lexington, Kentucky. I assumed this housing and rent issue was mostly domestic but the more news around the world and hearing personal experiences of people I realize the public is all in this together. Canadian, British, Australian, French, and American citizens are all being shafted by their government in this regard. They favor migrants over their own people and actually incentivize (particularly in the USA) as many migrants as possible to flood in. They also spend billions of taxpayers dollars in foreign aid or ridiculous programs that benefit everyone but their own citizens. I believe there is a central source of corruption that is not being shared with the public on why the governments have all gone this direction because I think its beyond just left wing political ideology at this point. So a bunch of 'conspiracy theories' have risen because the public is forced to figure out what is really going on. 'the great reset'? "The great replacement theory?" "New World Order?" "International Corporations are now in total control of the government agenda? (aka the WEF)" I hope I'm wrong but its looking closer to the fact that governments and corporations want to replace their citizens in democratic or republic countries with slaves (migrants from 3rd world countries). And their own citizens will have nothing so only those at the top will have all the money and power (Executives, CEOs, Government officials). They just made a huge bold move like this in America. Tyson foods are laying off tens of thousands of americans and plan to hire over 50,000 illegal immigrants to replace them so they can pay them next to nothing and treat them however they please. Its pretty obvious since it came so swiftly that this was planned. Either way if they continue down this road I hope the public fights back and prevents this kind of a takeover. Thankfully at least its not country-wide here in the States. Canada seems rough its hugely expensive everywhere near any city from what I saw. In the US the crisis is mostly concentrated near the big cities where rent and houses are so expensive you have no chance for the lower and middle class to afford it. Only people making $100,000 per year can and even then it can be a struggle financially.
@alwynemcintyre21845 ай бұрын
Councils don't build housing in Australia, the states do and they started winding down there building programs and left it to the developers. They only built more up market properties because there was more profit in them.
@vivianhull33175 ай бұрын
Part of the problem is that those who owned homes that they rented out, have copped extra taxes on top of the other various costs, so they are selling off their properties. Those buying, however, are not investors. They are owner occupiers. This means the amount of rentals has been reduced by about 30%. Thanks Labor!!
@shezza665 ай бұрын
We have had record migration plus a large amount of construction companies folding. The cost of materials have made building homes un profitable. Housing has gone through the roof where it is better to sell than rent. They haven’t built housing expecting the construction companies to set some homes in estates for low income.
@Tidus0p5 ай бұрын
Supply and demand. Almost all politicians have investment properties (as do many Aussies). Now for me, I own 49% of my house and if the value dropped $200k I would still owe less on what it’s worth. For some people though if the value of their properties dropped $200k due to how much they’ve borrowed, they would owe more than what the house is worth but ultimately it would have a negative impact to these investors. Keep in mind how high the values are of Australian property market is compared to comparable countries. The country needs to be building at least 350-400k dwellings a year to keep up and it would still take 1.5 years or so to catch up. The problem with this is that building is taking longer as there are supply shortages and worker shortages. Then the last part of the problem is, building regional is even slower than building in the major cities, most Australians want their own home and don’t want to live in high rise buildings (Melbourne for example is almost double the size of London yet had just over half the population of London). Our cities are sparsely dense compared to comparable cities. Sydney is running out of land around the city which is increasing land costs and the other 4 major cities are being pushed out further and further from the city centres. But, the quick fix will be a major negative impact to the country which outweighs the positive benefit we will gain which is the catch 22.
@robertlarosejr.15355 ай бұрын
Canadas housing market is absolutely atrocious too
@alwynemcintyre21845 ай бұрын
Building companies collapsing, shortage of about 90,000 tradies, think there's also with a shortage of building supplies. Think they can build 5 to 10,000 houses a year but they need to be building 50,000 a year, tradies your input would be invaluable
@paulsandford33453 ай бұрын
All politicians have at least 2 or 3 holiday homes!
@anneelizabethrose47605 ай бұрын
So very sad and true and I live here in nsw
@katherineschmidt20755 ай бұрын
The rental agencies are really picky. Basically if you have pets, kids or are on a single income you are put at the back/ shunned. Why arent some of these people buying instead of renting??what is stopping them doing that if theyre on good money?? Basically the rental price a week would be more than a mortgage payment a week. There is like 120 people vying for 1 rental every single rental. Youll even get a couple on a combined $110,000 a yr being knocked back for rent. People just sign up and hope for the best, with every rental, no matter the price or condition. But there is MANY houses for the less fortunate to rent which just need basic fixing and are sitting vacant and losing condition, yet the local or state govts wont do it. Itll take like 2 years minimum to get it signed off on. That is the real problem, and serious inflation on price of essentials, rent, petrol, also timber has tripled in price to mill. No people to then build more houses, houses sitting half finished for over 2 years. Nothing ever seems to give or be fixed/ eradicated.
@gailstevens68314 ай бұрын
There are a huge lack of qualified builders across Australia. Existing builders are run of their feet now, they arw unable to keep up with the demand .
@alwynemcintyre21845 ай бұрын
If you don't have a place to live, a lot of businesses won't employ you as well.
@peterpan4085 ай бұрын
The weather is nice enough in Australia.. and you can BQ shrimps everyday!
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
Those shipping container beds are illegal.
@nikedoesthings5 ай бұрын
I can see many Chinese having bought real estate in Australia, since they cannot have their money safely in China. Banks there collapse, and the real estate market there is different: you cannot own anything even if you buy it, it's a 70yr government lease. So this is a way for many Chinese people to safeguard their money until they need it. They do this everywhere around the world, and its sad the homes are vacated, but it's also sad they do not have the freedom to do as they please in their own country, they cannot trust their government or bank to serve them.. there's a lot more wrong than simple corruption and greed from the Australian gov. side I think. there's a lot of Chinese diaspora in Australia and NZ, and Canada as well.
@katherineschmidt20755 ай бұрын
Within 25klms from the coast???? Nooooo!!!! Majority in Perth WA are within maybe 100klms of the coast. Then the metro area is from Mandurah in the south to Yanchep in the north. This is about 200klms long. Perth has one of the smallest metro suburban areas aswell. Usually most stuff if told by an American it will 100% be wrong ok.
@siryogiwan5 ай бұрын
was watching Hasan earlier, talking with friendlyjordies and lads from boy boys, apparently only a couple of European countries don't have a housing crisis, which is scary AF to think about
@siryogiwan5 ай бұрын
that can't be legal, renting shipping containers like that 1 dude in Qld
@siryogiwan5 ай бұрын
the NSW gov housing, has a 10yr waiting list, the gov are selling off old ones and just not replacing most of them
@paulsandford33453 ай бұрын
Every government on mainland Australia is labor including the federal government, what it show is labor are now for the rich! Our PM personally owns 18 houses!
@peterpan4085 ай бұрын
They didnt 'just' get evicted.. They probably didnt pay the rent.
@user-wc8fp4cx6c5 ай бұрын
*A decision on Julian Assange is expected tomorrow!!!*
@bmacadody94475 ай бұрын
If this continues, we will take up unfinished hotels. And good luck getting us out
@bmacadody94475 ай бұрын
Easy put up tense in front of albanese's house
@bmacadody94475 ай бұрын
Just come on a boat.You will get a house. But fuck the rest of australia
@jaredoliver93475 ай бұрын
3 month leases on houses are criminal Australia sucks now
@top40researcher315 ай бұрын
its the cost of living that is going on at the moment thats the reason
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
ACA is like believing the daily mail lol
@karenduncan81505 ай бұрын
You have to blame it on the last prime minister and covid well that hit the industry big time.
@saydvoncripps5 ай бұрын
You think people don't live in tents in the UK? Is building more houses the answer? My Borough of London has built 1000's. No one can afford them. What's the point unless the population have half a million I their pockets to spend on a shitty shoe box with a view into the windows of the tower block built 10 meters away. Come here, I'll show you tents.
@taylorjones49395 ай бұрын
WE MUST PUT A PAUSE ON IMMIGRATION
@alwynemcintyre21845 ай бұрын
And there's the conundrum, deep cuts need to be made to immigration for the moment but you that restricts doctors, nurses and tradies coming to the country that we need.
@hw30065 ай бұрын
Canada's housing crisis is worse
@claire-christmas-august735 ай бұрын
extremely sad and utterly unnecessary in 2’ 24.! it’s embarrassing.! 🥺 ✌🏻🇦🇺🌏🤘🏻
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
Man these stories and the people who fall for them really piss me off lol
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
This story is merely an ad for the housing company ffs lol
@lillibitjohnson72934 ай бұрын
I call BS on this video. No homeless person is going to set up a tent on the side of the road.
@paulsandford33453 ай бұрын
Mate you need to open your eyes, this is true. Because Albo, is bringing in more people than the houses that can be built!
@rsvbiker41495 ай бұрын
British where 🙄
@alwynemcintyre21845 ай бұрын
If you don't have a place to live, a lot of businesses won't employ you as well.