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I’ve had the same experience with a previous property manager.. kept wanting to put up the rents of our tenants.. we had to block it every time. As an ex-renter, I know what it’s like when the landlords suddenly jack up the rent. I refuse to be one of those landlords

@@kiashlan Admirable and unfortunately rare.

I have a rental unit in Melbourne - Elwood - my tenant has been there since 2001 and in all these years I have only increased rent twice and gave 50% rent for 3 months during lockdown - I now rent in Qld and property managers here increase rents annually - the greed is sickening

Exactly the landlord gets the blame but it's the bloody real estate wanting the rent to go up so they get more of the 4%

et Pappi & Penny M Thankyou for being like that for those who rented from you. I'm sure they appreciated the stability & security that housing offered. - Homeless Joe -

The way they are living...it's called self entitled Aussies. How Aussie ..you want kids, a nice home, good food but work in a low skilled job 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why....it's capitalism...

@@bangballs that's just heartless.

@@bangballs you must be wealthy or don't have kid's . Hope you won't have to go through it yourself, if you do you will remember the coment that you posted .

all thanks to the grub er ments!!!

I've started hearing reports about this and I had no idea that real estate's were putting this pressure on landlords. Granted there totally are the greedy landlords who truly do not have a conscience but there are the really good ones too. I'm wondering how just how many landlords have been pressurised into upping their rent. I'm an independent journalist who slept on the streets in part because of a greedy landlord with questionable and dodgy behaviour. I may look into this a bit more.

Great: the devil has not succeeded in sowing greed into your mind.

Thanks for being such a good human being!

God bless you. My real estate agent told me it was the landlords that put the rent up if all the other homes are more expensive re rent.

May God bless u for that

You are so right, the government has failed you and a lot of others as well, it's down right shameful

Yes the government thinks of his own ass nobody else

they must change asap otherwise tons of people ll die in streets no joke

Albanese did nothing to get rid of negative gearing given that he holds interests in real estate himself! What an asshole!

Well said elizabeth ❤

I agree that is the truth of it. Thank you for stating it so well. The propaganda is it the person’s fault when in reality it is the power elite who engineered this. A crime against humanity.

Yes so true. They can find immediate housing for refugees etc but stuff the Aussie battler who have payed taxes generation after generation. No loyalty for the True Blue Aussie anymore.

@@evewright1102 I don't think we should be fighting over what should not be scarce resources either. There is no reason why as a nation we shouldn't have affordable housing and enough of it for our needs. The conservative politician Robert Menzies understood the need for social housing and it was an essential part of Liberal Party policy in the post WW2 reconstruction years. Abandoning it has led to the most hideous social dysfunction. Everyone thinks they're a genius for making money on the housing market but what they've done is become mean and tricky.

Stop whining,go to the wood and build your damn house 🏠.

Y it shows a lack of courage of conviction on their part.

It is good to be able to comment and see others thoughts on the matter too. I agree!

probably because they expect most of the comments to get along with their opinion. let's see if all future uploads would be open for comments

@@gudboyngdisyerto wokes can’t stand any criticism. Never use sites that won’t let you comment.

@@eleanorcrawford9978 wokes what's that perhaps pick up a dictionary

Where are you ?

Yeah, and now giving our jobs away too

I’m an american nurse who is sleeping in her car.

Don’t all Australians get FHOG when they purchase their first property? Also where is your spouse? Why didn’t you work together until you have enough down payment to buy a place to live for yourself before having a kid? Why have a child when you haven’t secured a stable housing for yourself? I’m sorry but your story sounds like the consequences of poor life choices.

@@maxdudomite wow, I bet you’re fun at parties. I had to start over due to severe domestic violence if you are so interested! My son and I are lucky to be alive. Now run along with your smart comments and what the hell is FHOG? Do you realise not everyone OWNS a property also? Haha, small minds. You must be easy to amuse!

No she's not a legend. If she was already in this situation, she shouldn't have thought about getting pregnant again.

imagine if she just did the right choice in her life and picked a better husband cuz she wasn't forced lol ah a tale as old as time MAKE BAD LIFE DECISIONS SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES LOVE IT more of this please

She's not a legend at all. She is doing what thousands of men do on a daily basis without any praise whatsoever.

The best thing she could do for her kids is to be married to their father before having them.

Shes a legend for spreading her legs when already living in poverty 💀💀i might sound rude but it's her own mistake. People from india and Africa come to Australia with student loans and get their degree in 4 5 years and start doing job and buy their homes and shit. If those guys can do it then why not these people who were born into this country?

Yeah. There is about 1 million dwellings in Australia (out of about 10 million) which are vacant. They are AirBnBs, holiday homes etc ... not only have rich people hoarded these extra houses that they don't need ... they aren't even renting them out. A second problem is all the massive government handouts and cushy policies which benefit housing investors. It makes housing the best place to invest ... provided you can already afford it.

@@pronumeral1446 I totally agree with you, the greed of the rich is disgusting and as for those AirbnB they should not exist with a housing crisis. Housing should never be about making money.

In my local area Airbnb owners have to pay a $10k licence fee to the council so there's no incentive for local government to stop this from happening. It's not just greedy landlords it's greedy government as well.

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@@michelledavies2197 You are jealous because you didn't bother working hard to change your position in life

imported from europe, postwar period

This mess is on our governments….

Sad to hear that about Salvos, Audrey. My suggestion is if you are really keen to help the housing crisis by having someone in your spare bedrooms, then you are better off putting up your extra room for rent at a very cheap price, advertising it in the paper or on a real estate website. Having people pay a small amount of rent (even if it's just a token amount), will also help them feel like they are in control and have dignity. The person you get in may not be homeless themselves, however if they are in your house then that means another rental somewhere else is now free for someone else (basically you are creating more rental supply). Make sure you get a proper lease and so on, so that you and they are both legally protected in the event things go south.

God bless you x

If you visit the local homeless support in Your area they would be able to recommend how to help.

You're such a good person ❤️ I hope you can find a way to help, and I agree with the idea of advertising rooms for cheap rent. You can interview applicants. Draw up a rental agreement to protect yourself if you do. My heart breaks for these people, but what can we do other than yell at those in charge?

This was done in Melbourne in the 1990s by some church groups but it was a single person who paid cheap rent to lodge with an older single person and in most instances, the lodger had to do nothing other than be there. It was more for the home owner, so they could feel secure in the evenings. It also allowed many older residents to avoid nursing homes.

Used to have a low population but that quickly changed .( Its not a housing crisis)

How is national housing service akin to a national health service not a thing? Free and universal to all, paid through taxes housing? The real labour party would support this. I fear that labour parties the world over have moved to corporate backing and the status quo.

Australia is no longer a wealthy or equal country

Watch the Labour files,documentary,by Al Jazeera,on you tube.Scandal of the British Labour Party.I am sure similar activities ,in all political parties,worldwide.

Speculators like the mind-bogglingly huge Vanguard and BlackRock are buying up property, because it's a safe-guard against inflation, and public housing, and affordable housing, has not been prioritized pretty much since WWII, maybe a little in the 70s, even though this has been going on for decades.

thats why the tax free threshold should be raised, low income workers shouldnt be paying tax

And most of them have kids also

It's true

Build more houses. The solution is simple

Yes that is a very simple solution but funding it is very different what makes me mad is that countries such as the UK Australia and the U.S.A can afford weapons for war but can't afford housing for the country's that I have mentioned first you are not the only countries that have this problem. 2nd governments should look after the people that put them in the privileged position they have but clearly they don't

It’s happening in USA as well

Too many people having children when the supply of jobs simply aren't there.

Is the pizza good? :o

I applaud you for making it. You painted a very vivid picture of your life.

Yokoshima:I am so awed by your tenacity. May good things come your way with ease.

Things can only get better mate. Stay strong and life will get better and better.

Wow. Good job, .

too much immigration is the problem, if your going to let more people in you MUST build more houses it is not rocket science.

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@Sam Choi we have both. Part of the problem is middle and upper class own 'investment' properties as part of their retirement portfolio assets, and use them either as Air Bnb holiday rentals or leave vacant much of the year for their own family's holiday enjoyment/use. Also government needs to continuously find ways to make money and one way is to make deals with developers/construction industry and private/corporate investment, whereby they make 'deals' on the government/public owned land assets. Public housing in the traditional sense has been owned by the government and the people of Australia, and therefore the government can choose to 'sell' that land to developers who want to build lots of things and make lots of money. But the caveats on these sales/builds to provide adequate housing for the government's housing schemes, and further 'affordable' housing is basically not a requirement. So the developers will build things that make the builders money, which are more higher end properties that richer people can already afford. Someone who is not wealthy enough to buy a property will be pushed out from these locations, thus creating middle -to-upper class ghettos of houses that are only sometimes occupied for holiday use.

@Sam Choi there is some public housing, very inadequate.

Maybe you can spare a room for this lovely lady and her children?

@@gustavosouza45994 so true 🥹🫡

Maybe she shouldn’t have had a bunch of kids. Can we please put some accountability on her?

@@dcg590 Get a break .Because she is having childs and others because they are alone . What skills peoples needs to having ? Everyone's are humans beings.

@@michelleduvois2755well other human beings are expected to give them handouts for their poor choices. Especially landlords. She is responsible for her poor choices and the kids pay the price. Where is her husband?

@@dcg590 Her husband must been not reliable person or coward to don't take any care about. You ending better knowing peoples on specially moments .She is very brave to look after her kids and herself. Now if you are mention landlords or real state' s they don"t care at all .Most there are greedy and just care about more money .One of the factor because rental crisis .

@@dcg590 guess you are all together

It happen here in USA too. Only the rich can really afford anything. 30% of us either put ourselves in major debt for housing, food, medical. The ones left are homeless, no healthcare, living in survival mode. This should have never happen in the 21st century.

No. What happened was that fewer people continued thinking (as indoctrinated) like poor people. They learned / realised that financial independence cannot be realised by the big majority on an hourly rate.

Indeed. I grew up in the 70’s, same thing. One house, dad worked while mum raised the kids and looked after the home. Happy simple days. Then everyone got greedy. Now we have the mess we see today.

@Dough down Under there's no denying Yillana's description above. i was born in 1960 so i lived through the exact era she talks of. You could even survive a marriage breakdown and start again in those years, in a new marriage - as my Dad and step mother (with two kids of her own) did. They paid off their mortage ok on ordinary wages, by age 60. they both did have to work fulltime to make that 'second start'. but they achieved it (we were teenagers). But that was a different world in EVERY possible way. Hint: debt was frowned on, nobody lived on credit. you only bought what you could afford. If necessary, you put clothing or furniture on layby, which was interest free as i remember it.

Actually it still is enough. The problem, is even quite high income earners can't afford this now.

Mine does too. 😪

yeah, that broke me a little bit for her. I hope she's okay and things worked out.

She can forget Albo helping her. He wants to bring in nearly 200,000 people a year at the demand of his Corporate Business mates, which will just make the problem worse. The Federal Government blame the State Governments and the States blame the Federal Government. Get the picture?

My heart broke seeing her emtional chat🥺

She just seemed defeated, the poor lady. My heart broke for her.

I’m surprised to hear that; what is Wellington doing to help these people who are sleeping in their cars; and tents?

@Moa don't know wgtn situation, but in the Wairarapa it's bad. People sleep under bridges.

@@bkay4781 you mean to tell me that families are sleeping under the bridges? It’s like that in many cities; and towns in America!

And New Zealand is #1 in homelessness per capita among developed countries.

@@shauncameron8390 Yeah I live in Christchurch and It's pretty bad here not as bad as Auckland but it's heading there housing crisis is Different to Australia though It's next to impossible to find a home especially if you're a parent

Yeah that Scott Morrison was such a lovely Christian man -not.

Exactly! I couldn't agree more

Yes but I'm sure being a young politically correct woman you wouldn't have a problem with thousands of refugees coming to Australia every year who need housing water and facilities that we simply don't have

ALL western governments are in league with this ridiculousness!

@@jamied8678 Never mind the 20,000 refugees that come every year. It's the 700,000 economic migrants that are coming to Australia in the next year as workers and students that are the issue. We simply don't have the housing, water and facilities for them.

Who knows what her father's situation is, some places will throw u out if they suspect others are living there whom are not the lease ..

Perhaps her Father warned her of the troubles she would one day face and he was ignored so it is not his duty to salvage her life

@@johnnypham2850 it is his duty. God, the west culture is cruel and eliminating.

Shame on someone for judging another when they know nothing about the situation.

@@johnnypham2850 Wrong! It is EVERY decent person's duty to help where they can, whatever the cost. That they're related only increases the culpability. I wouldn't abandon a mangy dog like that: least of all one that had puppies to protect and look after.

agree hun, fellow aussie single mum here, went through five months two years ago applying for over 428 properties, taking days of work to attend inspections with 20 other people in the mid peak of covid, sunk into depression thing im 38 an aged care nurse and for once in my life i cant provide my daughters a roof over their head, finally a rental came through, been happy here started lease at 320 pw gone up to 420 yesterday and half an hour later email saying selling in november, truly scared stressed and not hopeful

I’m still being rejected, I’ve been applying for at least 2 places per month for the last 2 years I’m convinced it’s because I’m single I never had this trouble when I had a partner! I’m so sorry to hear they are selling I hope you find something quickly and don’t lose hope 🤍

If you have a house you don't live in, you are not desperate nor poor.

I think most landlords get their monthly mortgage payment and then some monthly. Why else would you buy a rental property??

they dont have a clue about value investing, before "snapping up" the house at whatever price you need to figure out a price to rent ratio, keep it real, if the price is too high, pass on it

I don’t agree with this either as it’s mostly greed, but most (not all) landlords do this simply because they can - supply and demand, we all know there’s no supply and heaps of demand. The Labor government is bringing in half a million people this year alone and we’re a country of just 26 million people. Most of these immigrants are cashed up and professionally educated on high paying salaries. Sadly neither the Labor or Liberal parties give a stuff about every day Aussies. They bring in cashed up immigrants to keep the economy rolling. I work with many people who’ve come to Australia in the last 1-5 years. Nearly all of them have bought two houses in that short time and are living it up at the cost of people who were born here. Something has to change with the housing market in this country, it’s unsustainable and we’re seeing the result right now!

Mortgage rates here in Canada have doubled. I have a rental suite I’ve converted to air B and B . I’ve have some very bad destructive tenants and in Canada we do not have the same system to weed out bad tenants or any recourse. My last tenant stiffed me with $1800 in bills and did $10,000 in damaged. Not all wear and tear she took apart cabinets . Another one abandoned boxes and boxes of belongings still sitting in the yard from a year ago. If my mortgage was renewed. It went from $1800 a month to $4000 a month. Are you saying if I was to rent out my property it would be greedy to expect as much as the cost of the property how is that being greedy? And I have disability I’m at poverty line myself so no way I could afford to subsidize some other persons living. It’s not all landlords . You have to look at the BANKS! This homeless crisis is international. Canada 🇨🇦 has brutal winters . Imagine the millions of homeless here in Canada for the same reasons. They need to heavily tax owners with and on additional properties and invest that money into rental housing and subsidies. If they run homes as B&Bs they can afford to pay more taxes. British Columbia just banned air B and bs in cites and districts with high rates of homelessness and shortage of housing. The immigration is an issue here too. 500;000 a year for the last 10 years and that’s not including student visas or work visas, My air B and B is in an regional area exempt from the new ban because it’s an additional suite in my house and being ruel there isn’t even busses here or garbage pickup. I don’t think people with additional homes outside of a primary residence is acceptable when there is any rate of homelessness. I think taxing those second homes to the nines is a solution. The owners will want to sell the market would get flooded with new property listings the market gets flooded then prices drop back to affordable levels. The tax dollars that are collected 50% to rental subsidies and the rest invest in affordable housing.

May God bless your journey my brother 🙏🙏🙏

I am so sorry to hear that. I am French and I have problems with accomodation too. I hope things will get better.

Why isn't anyone protesting anywhere in the world about this problem ,

I hope and pray it will work out for you, just horrible situation you are in ❤️❤️❤️

@@baits9301 because the elites who own the world cause the problem.

You will own nothing and be happy.

It seems that this has happened all over the world in the last two decades. Greetings from South Africa

Same in 🇨🇦 My hometown Vancouver has just become a playground for the rich .. Greed !!!!!

Its everywhere worldwide

@@Brad-99 human greed everywhere... always has been

So true

It's getting worse

A great comment that is spot on!

This is what the liberal government has done to Australia now we need labour and the greens in government for at least 10 years but I don’t think labour is enough I think we need the greens to run the country because it seems that this left and right isn’t working

@@crystalclear6661 Point out when Labor (not Labour) was in government and interest rates were low, there was sufficient rental housing, low unemployment rates, and a low budget deficit. You have conveniently failed to mention the country has just been through a pandemic!

If this can happen to a country like Australia, think about the rest of developing and under developed world.

@@crystalclear6661 Labor is constantly threatened by the right wing media. It's one thing to have marvellous policies but the Greens etc aren't implementing them.

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Thats coz the word got around the world to all the foreign buyers and refugees and now with the mass population growth, our own people born here are left to suffer!

@@RareGem369 and sufficient government housing like in post war years that help sustain the migration in new industries, that no longer happens

lucky country? funny you will be ended slaves in australia if you enter as student.

Oh no the politicians past and present still live in the lucky country . It's only the ordinary citizens who live in the not so lucky country .

100 per cent government landlords will not agree it’s happening in Australia people suffering there

I didn't have children because the stupid American economy never gave me any confidence that I would be able to support them financially. I had jobs but kept losing them so there was no assurance that I would always have money.

Plus the 200,000 others like her

She won't she and all gentiles are under judgement curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-68 are on your heads now ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ this is TMH God judgement for your for father's deeds collection time. APTTMHGY 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 my God's will be done here on the earth 🌎.

@@crand20033 you didn't have children because TMH God said no more gentiles on his land. You are under judgement by TMH God ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ for your for father's sins. The blessings is over for you. This is God's word. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He who kills with a sword gun shall be killed with a sword gun by TMH God. He is not a man that he would lie 🤥🤥 APTTMHGY 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 let his will be done on the earth 🌎.

​@@queenmommie100 oh go soak your head! Wishing negative things on people, you should be ashamed of yourself! May everything you wish onto others be visited upon you! Now be nice and wish only happiness for others 😂🤣

It's a foundation in the Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Physiological security of food and shelter. When this is taken from you, you start to break down. It amazes me when I see otherwise compassionate politicians distance themselves by saying 'well, a lot of the homeless have mental health issues'. As if they're all hopeless cases. As if that's the cause of their homelessness and nothing can be done! In fact it's the reverse. Homelessness is the cause of a lot of mental illness and that reality is cursing the rest of us who pretend it's all cosy and the only homeless people are the undeserving poor. We live with that as our curse and we all will die knowing we did nothing to stop it but indulge in our fantasy world of plush interiors and designer must-haves. Guilt. Coming to a home near you!

@@deborahcurtis1385 Well said Debra. I wish I knew ppl in real life who understand social issues and think like you!

@@deborahcurtis1385 Having volunteered with homeless charity, here in UK, what you say is so true. The constant anxiety and absolute fear of homelessness is what brings on the mental illness for many. It's heartbreaking, and our governments are absolutely vile and deliberately disconnected from the reality!

civilised perhaps but first world country...?? where still discrimination ....

@@deborahcurtis1385 This is one of my favorite comments ever! You are paying attention. Everything we are seeing here is even more pronounced in The United States. Maslow would be lynched were he alive today! Thank you Deborah!

We're returning to serfdom so the rich can have cheap workers.

Hundreds of people living in tents in Hawaii too

Agreed.

Thank you for doing your part. Now if only other landlords would do the same....

We have a rental in Muswellbrook NSW. We also rent to a single mum and give her a very nice, affordable home with solar power. When we signed up with the RE to let it out they conducted a thorough check and explained they had been approached by the previous owners to rent it out, but it was in a deplorable state, so didn't touch it, I thought it was common for realtors to have expectations of a decent rental-I work for a Homelessness Org now and know very different!

Good on you, Janet; To rise up out of homelessness, gain your own shelter, and provide shelter for more people (at only 60% market rate). There needs to be more like you because I rented a room in a place where the Landlord was a Surgeon, and he was greedy af. Thank you for doing what you do for the tenants.

Perhaps not all are greedy grubs, but the vast majority are.

Yeah, my weekly rent only went up $25 over 11 years at my previous place.

And corporations buying up houses and then raising rents to ridiculous levels. This is happening in the US

It is a disgrace. We all should be ashamed.

It’s absolutely ridiculous this country has become the unlucky country now. It’s not the lucky country it used to be. I am disgusted in the prices it costs to live these days. It’s not right at all 💔

How do I get in touch to help her with potential accommodation?

@@intuitivediane Ashamed of what. What do you think we are doing so wrong that we should be ashamed.

It is extremely common.

❤ Finally a good word for single moms. I raised my daughter alone and she is doing better than me!

@@karendalsadik7119 You can be proud of yourself ❤️

Where is the father!

@@jeannebrandon318 What do you think? Ask the Father? Why men leave and leave their women and kids in shit? All the so called men that does that should be neutered like animals

Stop having kids, stop be single mom when u can't be affordable in finance. It will be a crime.

In our town they are all Air bnb. An RN at our local hospital was “lucky” to rent a room in a house for $350 a week.

​@@BluddEHell😢

It's much less expensive for housing in the US.

Western civilisation is on its last legs -

All over the world

Where isn't it?

this time we wont be so slow to lop heads off

Yes, although at the moment it's the majority who are property owners and the minority who are renters. But that will likely change with time.

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Because of the increase of wickedness the love of many shall grow cold. Mt 24:12

@@mushy111 It's already changing and there is the biggest concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer, since pre French Revolution.

This is same for all countries be it a first world or third world. no improvement in population , health and home . Shameful conditions.

Agreed 😡.

In the US as well. Entire neighborhoods are empty, owned as second homes and rented out as airbnb.

I agree with you and I believe that Professionals are currently dominating the market since they have access to both the necessary strategy for making money in this industry and exclusive insider market information.

I keep wondering how people earn money in financial markets, i tried trading on my own made a huge loss and now I'm scared of investing more.

Personally, I would always advise getting a professional help so they can steer you through the choppy market.

I’m Glad i stumbled on this. Please, if its not too much of a hassle for you, can you drop the details of the expertise that assisted you and how to get in touch with him?

@@Florencecoxx I get guidance from *Mr Gary Mason Brooks* . Most likely, the internet should have his basic info..

@@bobjames6622 easy to say coming from a place of privilege.

@@bobjames6622 your entire comment is just a face full of presumptions. You dont know anything about her. Maybe she was married and lost her husband, maybe she wasnt but the father decided to bail out or maybe she's still living with the father and they are all working hard but still cannot find means to defeat the overpriced rental boss or come up with the 5-6 figure sum required to even make a deposit on a potentially non existant house for sale

She needs justice. 10 years of liberal policy of scratchin gthe backs of rich mates has lead to this.

@@bobjames6622 I suppose she got pregnant spontaneously so it’s all her fault? In my country they want to make contraceptives illegal in addition to abortion. The human being is programmed to procreate. Having children shouldn’t only be the right of Kings, Princes and billionaires.

@@msbramble176 that’s not liberal policy but Neoliberal policies. Pro wealthy and down with the working class.

Where are the fathers??

@@ubiquitousdiabolus Even 2 full time incomes cannot afford some of these prices. Why aren't those d--ned kids working too? Lazy 9 year olds need to get out of school and into those sweatshops, am I right? Yes, that's sarcasm

@@ubiquitousdiabolus In jail for failure to pay child support, silly.

@@ubiquitousdiabolus while a majority may not have fathers my mother took in a couple who were homeless. She didn't change rent and they stayed over a year until they got on their feet. They weren't acquaintances, they were strangers. It worked well but that may be a rare outcome. It is, however, possible.

@@crand20033well, let’s put accountability where it belongs. On HER. She chose the deadbeats, had kids she can’t afford and now wants handouts. Too bad. People whom are Responsible are sick and tired of funding these people

Im british but recently moved to the Netherlands and feel a bit out of place here. How does living in Australia compared to living in Western Europe?

@@user-qb7ms6vs7s Europe is so different, so much more you can do , you don't need to take a plane to go in Spain for instance ( I live near the Spanish border) or Italy etc You can have a good meal for cheap at the restaurant, houses are cheaper, food is cheaper, leisures are cheaper . In Australia you just have to pay and pay and pay . Obviously it's getting worse. I owned 2 houses in France , I couldn't owned one in Australia.... So no regrets even if i love Australia very much.

Warsaw Poland is my choice as a former New Yorker

in the last 6months my rents gone from $330 to $400 per week but that's still lower than the areas average at $500-$600per week and I live in an undesirable suburb outside Brisbane. I wish I could escape elsewhere your lucky to have another option, but I think it's only going to get worse probably much worse so I doubt you'd want to ever come back. The prices are absolutely ridiculous and getting worse very quickly most have gone up by 150 dollars a week in only 6months. crazy and totally terrifying for those of us stuck here.

Tabbi888 Come to Warsaw Great city growing rapidly and you can rent a nice flat for 600 USD a month

I watch something the US City are doing now it a great idea we could do it in AUS An NZ as well an it cheap to build but the goverment perfer to spend 500,000 on a home for 3 then spending the same amount an house 30 ++ This home ment to last 3-5 years until a home can be build but it will never happen with 75,000 new poeple arriving in NZ every year an just 6 new homes .

Too many immergrants being housed while people born there are left out on the street!

@@jacodevnik9883 If immigrants work , they can afford houses. Me and my husband are immigrants in the UK and we bought a house. We never took benefits.

We don't have a homeless problem in Poland. We have poor people, but no one lives in a tent.

Too many low wage foreigners in NZ without the housing thanks to National selling off our housing stock, now we see the poor results

I totally agree with you and what these people don't get is crime will go up and the gangs move in therefore everyone is society becomes impacted all because of greed from a basic human right. Sad to be these kind of people.

That's how capitalism works.

@Matthew Atwood The ugly side of capitalism sink or swim and there's a lot more sinking than swimming that's how it works great for the rich.?? Let me guess your swimming 🤑👁👀

@@michelledavies2197 Exactly. You got it.

@@matthewatwood8641 No, wrong, because it isn't working for the many. This is corruption!

They are usually investors themselves. So they have a vested interest in doing nothing.

Don't expect politicians to do anything. They are all liars. Not a single one is any good.

Very sad

How is national housing service akin to a national health service not a thing? Free and universal to all, paid through taxes housing? The real labour party would support this. I fear that labour parties the world over have moved to corporate backing and the status quo.

Politicians probably think social housing is communism.

At who's expense?

At the expense of a state that should be glad to have young mothers try so hard to work and to contribute and not rely on welfare. At the expense of a state who should know that kids are the future. At the expense of a state that should be ashamed to have babies live in mouldy, asbestos-filled sheds. At the expense of the taxes that we all pay and that this young mother pays, too. Why waste taxes on making rich people richer and poor people poorer.

@@RoxyTrevellas expense of a state means expense of others although

Same as British culture. Beyond sad and selfish

My aunties have spare rooms but no one offered to house me. I guess having two young children would disrupt their comfortable space at home. It's so isolating. Currently living in a woman's refuge and thankful for this opportunity but I've got only one month left and rentals are scarce and too expensive for a descent one without mold!

​@Shoshanah Ben Noach it's a bit cruel but they also did not choose to have 2 extra children or decided to let a useless man to come in them? Take some responsibility for your choices. People don't end up in bad situations without contributing to it in some way

Bravo and well said. Plus there is this blame shifting it's all supposed to be the homeless person's fault.

Politicians like to grandstand on things that get them noticed and unfortunately the Homeless are in their sights you are to be commended for sharing your thoughts let's just hope someone has a heart and takes notice

I pay a bit more of my wage for rent and yes, I agree with every word you've said.

Rent control will limit the amount of available rentals even more.

Exactly it’s ridiculous I know how ya feel as I too have health issues which make it very hard for me to work

Bogan's run has been a noble tradition for scum, crims, hoods, thugs and gangstas since antiquity.

Selfishness

isn't it her fault for picking a garbage man.

@@thatundeadlegacy2985 yes could well be, but equally plenty of sociopathic predators rip off the caring mask only after they have their prey locked down ie pregnant. I know bc I bash one whenever he goes anywhere near my daughter.

, the first rule or lesson in school your family your country are next to god for us if you fail one you fail all , you are lost

THEN remember that such a nomadic, day-to-day life is what has SUCCESSFULLY brought us here over billions of years of Evolution, despite unimaginble hurdles. THAT demonstrates that IT WORKS! What we have now may be convenient (and habit-forming) but it robs us of the things that matter: survival of those FIT to survive (and breed in order to pass on their WINNING genetics and achievements.)

Actually, it's a valid (chosen) option for a dozen good reasons. That's probably why so many are CHOOSING to hit the road (eg The Grey Nomads.) I lived 'on the road' albeit in a van and with plenty of cash for 18 months recently whilst deciding what to do with my life ahead (house was torched). While I could feel sympathy for those street-dwellers who had no choices (due mainly to their brainwashed-in 'need' for a 'Dream-home of their own' I came to realise that we are, BY NATURE and GENETICALLY a nomadic species. Almost ALL of our 'ambitions' are engineered by people who are looking to make a profit off us.( a nd in the process produce NOTHING of value themselves. Try a mental exercise: Imagine yourself as a mountain-goat. And THEN imagine yourself as a dairy-cow. 🙃

The Lucky Laundry by Nathan Lynch

It goes much much higher. And where are the bio dads?? In Canada they cant just walk away.

So has Housing NSW....:(

@@jmc8076 What happens in Canada? We have huge numbers of single Mums here. Boys growing up without a Male role model is not to be underestimated

All owned by China, what did you expect? They won't rest until every white Aussie is homeless.

Also middle aged women are the group which has the highest risk of homelessness, How can housed people be so indifferent to this crisis?

@@deborahcurtis1385 Australia is a country where 20% of the country own 60% of the houses (that's about 6 million, of which about 1 million are vacant, not on the rental market and not being used by anybody), it's just massive inequality. And about 35% own 35% (that's owner occupiers). And about 5% are public housing.

But they do nothing about it. Why not?

I’m on $120,000 a year and have had to move back with my Dad with my disable fiancé and our daughter. We where living on the Sunshine Coast and with a completely clean & perfect rental record, we’d applied for over 450 houses, 6months of applying, and unable to secure a property. And I’m talking each day, following up applications, categorising them in email folders. Attending property inspections, contacting agents, sometimes hearing back, sometimes not. Daily applications, absolute determination & focus, with nothing eventuating. After speaking to some agents who would speak to me in person off the record (not in writing via email etc) they explained to me that house owners are now being afforded the luxury of high end talent pools, with the likes of executives and senior leadership with salaries of half a million dollars, offering up to 6 and 12months rent up front, on the spot. Due to COVID, a lot of high end executives and people on amazingly high salaries with companies who have adapted to having senior leadership roles being able to work effectively from home, what’s happening is places like Sunshine Coast, Coffs Harbour, basically anywhere with nice coastal beautiful beach views & surroundings are now highly sort after areas. If you could work from home, would you rather live in the hustle & bustle of Melbourne , Sydney , Brisbane CBD or after the day of works finished working from home, walking along the beach with your family? The problem now becomes, how do people compete with that? Don’t get me wrong, I consider my family and I blessed to be on the salary I am on, and with a roof over our heads compared to some peoples circumstances, but even people on my salaries aren’t able to secure properties. How do you compete with someone on half a million dollars, willing to pay a house owner $35,000 plus up front on the spot? You can’t… So house owners can choose between someone like me, who can pay the bond and upfront costs, comfortably afford the property OR Someone that’s on half a million dollars, and offering them up to $35,000 on the spot. Who would you choose?

@@ellarweegadsden8483 Labor has committed to doing something about it. Approx 30,000 new homes. Voting Liberal got us here.

Could have said no

How good is neoliberalism!

@@samwalker6268 I had to look up the meaning. I’d get NCAT involved. A friend of mine came to me with a contract not long ago about a real estate agent who wanted to claim a break fee when it was the owners intention to sell. We approached the agent and highlighted the sections of the Act and they still wanted to go to the tribunal. They lost their case. But one of their managers said we’ve been doing this for a decade now it’s normal practice. Ripping off renters is their normal practice! I couldn’t believe it

​@@alNange There are good and bad real estate agents, landlords and renters/tenants. However, landlords/real estates have lots of advantages that tenants/renters don't have. For starters, when a renter applies to be a tenant, they have to give all sorts of highly personal information, and references, which the real estate / landlord use to weed out bad tenants. But the reverse is not true. Renters have no way of knowing whether a real estate agent or landlord are good or bad. Landlords don't have to give references to be a landlord. Additionally if a landlord ends up with a bad tenant, the worse case scenario is that they kick out the bad tenant (which can take a while) and it costs them some money in repairs. Whereas if you are a renter and get a bad real estate agent/landlord, you can end up homeless or broke or both. So the stakes are much higher for renters.

Its crazy greedy, is what it is when landlords dont maintain and renters pay top $.

There must be more to these stories. Her father was there helping her pack, so she obviously has family of sorts. The other lady with the 9 year old has a sister living in a 1 room place above the pub - why not try and get a place together? Even with a one room flat - I wouldn't make my sister sleep in the car outside. Bit off.

How sad... and here in Australia is even worse, migrants are being exploited and humiliated to the core... how shameful... Australian politicians age unseen racists... the whole Parliament working against people not for people and people are still silent but for how long?!?! Regards from warm Melbourne, take care dear friend, I love your empathy

@@svetlana7904 thank you Svetlana. Greetings from an icy Kitchener, Ontario Canada 🤍

Elizabeth I m sorry for your grief may God bless you dear ❣️ sending love from Dubai stay strong. 🙏

@Zain Ul Abdin thank you Zain for your kind words.

It is the same in the US. Many are being "priced out" where I live. If I don't live like a complete miser I will be one of them. I have been looking to see where I could go but it is really the same in the other states I have been looking at as well. I am retired. I guess I should have kept working forever but I couldn't.

Beautifully put! ❤

exactly. where would they live?

Finally someone mentioning supply

it depends on the zoning laws in each state and local permission of the land usage. The more complicated it is, the less house will be. Including the strict size of the housing. In state like Victoria there are 30 standardized zoning, Japan nationally has 12 and it's much simpler. An apartment in Tokyo can be cheaper than in Brisbane, because the zoning and building code size isn't so large.

@@Coolsomeone234 Of course doing so would coach the housing market and make everyone’s “investment” worth 40% less. And because most of the politicians have investment property’s they all have a lot of money to loose if this happens but we can only hope. Not to mention most voters feel happy with the way the economy is being run when there home is worth 20% more so there is that too.

But if they can't bring in cheap labour who is going to do these greedy people's jobs so they can make more money and purchase more homes to rent out for more money.