I sent a new Letter to the Editor today

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Perth Western Australia
Housing Skilled Workers
Yes, Australia needs more workers.
My question is how is it possible that all these workers will be housed when there is not enough housing now?
We have rental tenants being evicted and unable to find suitable accommodation thus being forced to live in their cars.
Where is the will of Governments to build enough social and affordable housing?
It is time we allocate a few billion dollars on this emergency issue.
Instead we decide we will give the Pacific Islands $525 million from the $4 billion yearly Foreign Aid budget.
 

Rescind the legislation giving tax cuts to the uber wealthy, or at least halve them. Another approach to reshaping the economy IMO would be to remember the principle of tax what is damaging and reward that which is beneficial. I would hike up taxation on gambling and the excise on alcohol and provide businesses with practical and financial support to train workers.

The gambling industry in my state (NSW) is draining workers pockets and provides very little in return.
 
Both good thoughtful posts with doable recommendations. But if politicians in Australia are anything like politicians in America using good recommendations don't translate very good for reelection. Gambling industry like any industry IMO can sway legislation that puts money into the pockets of politicians.
 

Knight said:
Both good thoughtful posts with doable recommendations. But if politicians in Australia are anything like politicians in America using good recommendations don't translate very good for reelection. Gambling industry like any industry IMO can sway legislation that puts money into the pockets of politicians.
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Politicians the world over are similar. They will say what is necessary to get elected and very often go back on their word.
This is a major problem in Politics. They are allowed to lie, without redress.
There simply is not the will to help the down and outs and big business says there is no profit in social/affordable housing so they stay away from the issue.
 
Knight said:
Both good thoughtful posts with doable recommendations. But if politicians in Australia are anything like politicians in America using good recommendations don't translate very good for reelection. Gambling industry like any industry IMO can sway legislation that puts money into the pockets of politicians.
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They only want our votes.. most of them don't want to hear from us afterward.
 
I'd think a non-profit organization could be created to build affordable housing? It seems like a group of people forming a co-op and building their own condo building would be able to swing it (with bank loans) and if it was a co-op it wouldn't need to charge more than cost and upkeep? You'd think organizations like that would already exist.
 
Bretrick said:
Housing Skilled Workers
Yes, Australia needs more workers.
My question is how is it possible that all these workers will be housed when there is not enough housing now?
We have rental tenants being evicted and unable to find suitable accommodation thus being forced to live in their cars.
Where is the will of Governments to build enough social and affordable housing?
It is time we allocate a few billion dollars on this emergency issue.
Instead we decide we will give the Pacific Islands $525 million from the $4 billion yearly Foreign Aid budget.
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Precisely the same thing is happening here. Barely any social housing being built, yet thousand being priced out of their own as well as rental homes.. In the Uk if you're on the dole and you rent, the Dole will pay the rent up to..I believe a max of £1500 per month... if however you own your own home you will not get any help with the mortgage but I understand some help with the Interest only..

Many people who live on or near a Minimum wage , especially those with children.. will not risk losing their homes if they are tenants, and will choose to go on the Dole...this will ensure that they don't lose their homes.. above all else.. It's arguably extremely annoying sometimes to see so many people choose this option, and my and my family's Tax Pounds paying for them not to work.. but ultimately it;s not their fault, it's the Givernments' fault, for not putting realistic caps on rents when they've not provided enough affordable housing for people in the first place..
 
It's the old story-supply and demand. If there were affordable, and plentiful housing for everybody, could landlords charge exorbitant rates- NO. Cheap rents don't make landlords rich. I don't know what a government can do. They could subsidize housing, which would cost billions or take over housing, -all government housing, which would cost billions. And to pay for that, the government would have to raise taxes. That means the poor have to shell out a lot more of their income to the government. We've never been able to figure out a solution. Government housing turns into squaller, and penthouse apts. get subsidies
 
It's the businesses which support the government, and construction firms want people to buy houses, not rent. Therefore the government is giving the green light for new 'affordable' houses to be built, but not housing to rent. This means many people often have no choice but to take on a mortgage which they struggle to pay. They get into debt, lose their homes and find themselves homeless.
The government benefits, the construction firms benefit....the public lose.
 
As one of the SJW talk hosts on KGO, San Francisco stated, housing is a right. While some may vehemently disagree, I'm with her on this one.

There will always be homeless, there were in the past. Those people who just can't do it, mentally ill or addicted to drugs. But people are being pushed out of housing by greed and it's getting worse and no one is doing anything about it that has power. I'm really getting enraged by this. They could build small housing that is simple and affordable. But it's not happening. There are all ages mobile home parks in this town but the space rent is outrageous and they can raise it like crazy since it's not 55+ only.
 
Maybe corporations need to start providing housing for their employees. I'm not sure how that would work, and it could lead to a situation like in the novel: The Corporation, but I'm not sure what else could be done to solve the housing crisis.
 
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