It’s not refugees raising the house prices, you’ve been listening to the Murdoch propaganda, my friend. It is hard to avoid. This is literally a created system, by policy geared at benefiting investors. Have a look at how many real estate investors are in politics, currently. When you gear policy towards benefiting investors, don’t build and underfund the competition that keeps prices at bay (public housing), the system looks like this. When you hear “blame minorities / blame immigrants etc” that’s the people with their hands in the pot, trying to create a straw man, so you don’t look at them.
Sorry if it sounded like I’m blaming refugees. I agree with everything you say. But if incoming numbers increase significantly (and we should definitely welcome them as our govt has sat by as the situation has become drastic in some parts of the ME) and we are still not catching up with the housing construction (and the expense to build growing because of oil price volatility), the problem will become worse. Imo, our govt should increase support for well-made prefabricated homes which are now much better quality than they used to be and perhaps even start a govt-owned prefabrication enterprise for social and affordable housing at scale, which would also provide manufacturing and related jobs.
I understand your worries. The wars are going to effect lots of things, supply chains etc. I’m not sure how oil will effect housing here, I’m curious how you see that effecting housing specifically? For real, Genuine question. (I’m not being snide.) The government should absolutely do all of those things, and they easily could. We do already have enough homes, it’s not as much of a shortage, more a problem that investors have hoarded up all the stock. They keep homes vacant, for prolonged periods of time to force the price of rents etc up. The government could easily tax investment properties, to tip the scale back in favour of it being a home first, and an investment second. We have enough homes, currently, and we are building enough homes to technically keep up with demand. It’s being manipulated to overinflate prices, currently, though. On census night in 2021, for example, more than a million homes were recorded as unoccupied. We could easily use homes that are vacant, or old military or mining bases. Theres options for both homeless and refugees. Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.
Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.>
I agree with you.
As to your question re housing and the effect of oil price rising, I think you answered it when you mentioned supply chains. Imo, construction, like all business, will be affected by a rise in petrol costs e.g. obtaining materials, tools, machinery from overseas, local travel and freight costs. All will be passed on to buyers so I imagine that it will become even more expensive to buy a new home unless govt helps out. In addition, the cost of kitting out a home will be more expensive as all appliances, imported furniture and miscellaneous items will also rise in price. These old men and their wars and power mongering are hurting young people in so many ways. No wonder so many don’t want to have children.
It’s not refugees raising the house prices, you’ve been listening to the Murdoch propaganda, my friend. It is hard to avoid. This is literally a created system, by policy geared at benefiting investors. Have a look at how many real estate investors are in politics, currently. When you gear policy towards benefiting investors, don’t build and underfund the competition that keeps prices at bay (public housing), the system looks like this. When you hear “blame minorities / blame immigrants etc” that’s the people with their hands in the pot, trying to create a straw man, so you don’t look at them.
Sorry if it sounded like I’m blaming refugees. I agree with everything you say. But if incoming numbers increase significantly (and we should definitely welcome them as our govt has sat by as the situation has become drastic in some parts of the ME) and we are still not catching up with the housing construction (and the expense to build growing because of oil price volatility), the problem will become worse. Imo, our govt should increase support for well-made prefabricated homes which are now much better quality than they used to be and perhaps even start a govt-owned prefabrication enterprise for social and affordable housing at scale, which would also provide manufacturing and related jobs.
I understand your worries. The wars are going to effect lots of things, supply chains etc. I’m not sure how oil will effect housing here, I’m curious how you see that effecting housing specifically? For real, Genuine question. (I’m not being snide.) The government should absolutely do all of those things, and they easily could. We do already have enough homes, it’s not as much of a shortage, more a problem that investors have hoarded up all the stock. They keep homes vacant, for prolonged periods of time to force the price of rents etc up. The government could easily tax investment properties, to tip the scale back in favour of it being a home first, and an investment second. We have enough homes, currently, and we are building enough homes to technically keep up with demand. It’s being manipulated to overinflate prices, currently, though. On census night in 2021, for example, more than a million homes were recorded as unoccupied. We could easily use homes that are vacant, or old military or mining bases. Theres options for both homeless and refugees. Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.
Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.> I agree with you.
As to your question re housing and the effect of oil price rising, I think you answered it when you mentioned supply chains. Imo, construction, like all business, will be affected by a rise in petrol costs e.g. obtaining materials, tools, machinery from overseas, local travel and freight costs. All will be passed on to buyers so I imagine that it will become even more expensive to buy a new home unless govt helps out. In addition, the cost of kitting out a home will be more expensive as all appliances, imported furniture and miscellaneous items will also rise in price. These old men and their wars and power mongering are hurting young people in so many ways. No wonder so many don’t want to have children.