Homelessness rises amid Australia’s national housing crisis | VideoLab | ABC News
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- A wave of demand for social housing is rising while more and more people are struggling to afford their rental properties, and supply is dwindling. We meet three people lost in the frenzy for an increasingly hard-to-find commodity - a home.
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Housing should be for families and people. Not for profiteering, greed is the cause of the housing crisis.
get an education.. the problem is lack of housing.. caused ONLY by immigration.. even the lady at the beginning sounds like an immigrant..
Totally agree! I wonder where Albo will house the 715K immigrants he's allowing to come into Australia.
@@mariahewitt9787 Housing should be for families and people, just as long as they don't come from another country?
@@ratinthetub5048
We have working taxpaying Australians, living in tents and in their cars right now, and Albo is bringing in 715K immigrants????
@@mariahewitt9787who will probably want to work and pay taxes too.
Also can't you do both?
The world has become like the end of a game of monopoly- one player owns all the properties and the rest of us are stuffed.
And government policy not only allows this, it encourages this.
Same old Capitalist model, Hollow it out until the sign falls off - & hope the public does not notice - & then move on to the next. Oxfam report states some 20-30 people own more wealth than 50% of the global population. And by all surprise no-one see what's-coming.
So apt. Well put !!
It has always been like this.
In reality.. nobody own the land...we just all temporary here on earth 🌎..
I used to live in Sydney CBD for 7 years from 2009-2016. Back then, there were very little number of homeless people on the street, but still quite struggling for me to live there as an overseas student. In 2016, i had to make a big decision whether to stay or to leave Aus. Now i know i made the right decision to leave. I now live simple life in my home country, Thailand. Still work hard, but my life is much more simple here, with affordable cost of living. I wish everybody will be able to survive this perfect storm.
any place for me there ?
Yes people don't realise how much our cost of living is
I think many Australians would prefer to be in Thailand, but there is no way you guys would hire an ordinary aussie, we would have to be rich already.
🙏Australia 🌻🌻🌻
@@robertolang9684 Thailand always have a place for everyone. You can apply for a short stay visa. And if you like it here, you can still find a job as an English teacher or maybe a volunteer job somewhere needed.
I am sorry to see Australia is going in the same direction as here in the US. I am 68, homeless, living in my minivan..thankful not in a big city but out in a forest. It is a difficult situation, I have multiple autoimmune diseases.
U hav chosen wisely by moving to a rural area
I hope U do find a place U can call home.
Australia let's foreigners buy up real estate which is ridiculous cause they don't live here or rent out
it strip supply an then Aussies can't enter the market weather to buy or rent
I'm sincerely sorry...I'm very familiar with autoimmune diseases. Given your situation I shouldn't whinge but I truly look forward to spring. I can't afford heating other than my electric blanket (never on when sleeping) and I'm fed up with having to be in bed by 4pm. In a perfect world our Swine Minister would be sleeping on a park bench.
@@lizann3058 yes
Politicians have no idea
What it would b like to not have a safe roof over their heads
They leave govt extremely rich .
Govt hav to start lettin people have a few tiny houses on each building block that is much better than having people b homeless on the street exposed to the elements.
It's hard enough to keep warm in winter in a house let alone on the streets.
I too have autoimmune but lucky enough to own my property
No matter if in the USA or AUSTRALIA
Stay safe stay strong ladies.
@@rabbitrabbit1243 Same thing happens here. Tons of foreigners buying up land in the US.
@@rabbitrabbit1243 Same in Canada. At least in Australia you don't freeze to death when you're homeless.
Australia has no shortage of land, no shortage of building materials (brickworks, timber mills, cement factories) yet we have a shortage of housing???
land and raw materials are useless without skilled workers. we need to encourage more young people into tradies instead of paying for their arts and law degrees.
Australia has a shortage of arable land with sufficient rainfall. There's a reason why the bulk of our population is located in the regions that they are. That presents a number of problems with regards to increasing housing levels. And keep in mind that it's not just houses that we need. It's the amenities that go with them. It's the roads, the railways, the schools, the hospitals, the sportsgrounds, the pub...the list goes on. Building houses is the easy bit.
All good. Albo's immigration policy will make everything a shortage.. except people. The can keeps on rolling.
yeah because of NIMBYs and councils preventing crucial housing developments, so glad that the new NSW government is taking initiatives to bypass these c*nts
There’s a huge shortage of materials but more importantly qualified tradesmen. This is mainly due to shipment delays from all the Covid restrictions. Building materials have increased significantly in price for example rebar has nearly doubled in price. Timber has gone up in price. These factors alone are causing extreme issues in the building industry. Houses that would normally take a year to build are taking 3+ years. Some houses aren’t even being finished because so many builders and businesses are going bankrupt. This housing crisis is a lot more complex than people would expect.
As an Australian I am absolutely appalled that is going on under our very noses. Something needs to be done NOW!
Go and do something about it then
Ya go house some of them with you bleeding heart
@@illusion466 you as well
We can't do anything about it.
It's how capitalism works, and it's working perfectly.
Ai will solve it in a snap!
We NEED rental protection. Countries like Switzerland have VERY strict and strong rental protection and most Swiss don't buy because renting is so safe and affordable, it also maintains the housing prices low.
Let's not become like the US and strive to be more like countries like Switzerland.
Unfortunately, it is greed in Australia. We have plenty of room, we have many nice country towns, which need more people, sadly we also have extreme arid lands with sometimes little water, sometimes too much water.
@@kramrollin69 We can have a greed contest….trust me, the USA will win🤑. Sam, you & your little fur babies are so sweet. - from empath is Scottsdale, Arizona USA.🌵✌🏽😎🇺🇸
IN🥴Scottsdale
@@davisholman8149 We love you guys too. Now send us all your money, or we will tell the Emus you took their eggs!!
Switzerland doesn't have mass immigration like Australia and the US.
Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Miami in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.
If anything, it'll get worse. Very soon, affordable housing will no longer be affordable. So anything anyone want to do, I will advise they do it now because the prices today will look like dips tomorrow. Until the Fed clamps down even further, I think we're going to see hysteria due to rampant inflation. You can't halfway rip the band-aid off.
Home prices will come down eventually, but for now; get your money (as much as you can) out of the housing market and get into the financial markets or gold. The new mortgage rates are crazy, add to that the recession and the fact that mortgage guidelines are getting more difficult. Home prices will need to fall by a minimum of 40% (more like 50%) before the market normalizes.If you are in cross roads or need sincere advise on the best moves to take now its best you seek an independent advisor who knows about the financial markets.
@@martingiavarini I will be happy getting assistance and glad to get the help of one, but just how can one spot a reputable one?
@@martingiavarini There are advisors in cities around you but I needed services of one who can guide me irrespective of location. "“Catherine Morrison Evans’' comes highly recommended especially in times like this. I am hedging and haven't lost much to the recession. I found her in 2020 when the market was at an all time low. Look her up and thank me later.
@@martingiavarini I am on her site doing my due diligence. She seems proficient. I wrote her an email and scheduled a phone call. Thanks for sharing
Congratulations to the ABC for finally choosing, or perhaps forgetting to leave the comments section open. This country needs to act urgently to accomodate everyone. Introduce rental caps, restrict airbnb and offer better support services and terms for families/singles struggling with mortgage increases.
Rental caps are lunacy. All that it will achieve is more homelessness as landlords will simply evict tenants as their lease expires. And it will detract from investment in the rental sector.
And it mightn't be a popular belief, but we need more investment, not less. Be careful what you wish for.
Rental caps, like almost all price controls will exacerbate the problem and lead to further housing supply shortages.
@@slop123456789 People just don't get it. And having idiots like Max Chandler-Mathers winding up voters for his own political ends is doing nothing to help.
This "eat the rich" knee jerk reaction is going to destroy the rental market. Investors are pulling out in droves, already, on the back of increasing costs, particularly in Victoria.
And it's owner occupiers that are buying the investors properties, not other investors. Anyone that thinks there is a rental shortage today is sadly mistaken. Give it twelve months, then they'll know what a rental shortage is.
Congrats on the most stupid comment on the matter. Rental caps are stupid. Theres a shortage of houses, not the price. Air BNB make a tiny proportion of accommodation.
@@davidbrayshaw3529 😂 no they won’t, because a good tenant will always be a good tenant, so any landlord with half a brain would do their best to keep a good tenant. It’s fine to say “rental caps are lunacy”, it’s just there’s no factual basis for such a statement, just a bunch of nervous nelly landlords who over-leveraged themselves and get the shock when the rates climb faster than the rent they can demand.
This is heartbreaking. What a dystopia! Greed pure and simple.
Greed only creates a dystopia when the greedy have political influence. Eliminate politics from the housing market and you eliminate their ability to dominate.
This is not greed,this is inflation and rising interest rates which is increasing mortgages for landlords every month and hence they have no option.but to up rent, get your self some education on finance first before passing rubbish judgements 🙄
@@user-km2ko9xk1y its greed that the main increase in costs come from at the highest level. Stop being taught rubbish financial education before writing something so out of touch, bootlicker of the billionaires
@user-km2ko9xk1y give us the full report then minister of finance. I'll wait..
@@user-km2ko9xk1y imagration imagration , you must be comfortable hey
This started in 2007. They've had 15 years and they didn't do a thing it just gets worse and worse. The housing market was capitalised on. Things like housing should be shielded from capitalistic parasites.
The problem is older than that.
This was eye-opening for me to watch. I'm American and I previously thought Australia had strong social policies and that homelessness effectively didn't exist down under. I'm sad to see this suffering in your country. I hope to see an end to this needless suffering in my lifetime.
Australia has more homelessness per capita than the US.
@@shauncameron8390 we define homelessness differently to the US. In the US homelessness is what we call "rough sleepers" (around 10 000 nation-wide) which is still vastly lower than it is in North America. I was considered "homeless" last census become I stayed with my parents after I relocated home from Sweden while I was looking for accomodation.
It’s thanks to 20 plus years of neoliberal policy started by John Howard when he turned housing into a wealth maker not a place to live. Ruined Australia. Will never be a great place to live ever again
Obviously problems exist in Australia!! You are a muppet you think Australia is perfect.. Australia is still much better than the US.. but it still has issues..
@@melburnianAustralia has lower number of “rough sleepers” homeless than North America but Australian homeless whatever definition you want to use, is still higher per capita than North America. Go Google what per capita means.
It's one thing to have an article about the increasing homelessness but the media needs to start being honest about the reasons why this is happening. The policies that our government is pushing in favor of big business and their fellow politicians investment portfolios. There's many things that can be done to solve this problem which are available to us today. The reason for not choosing those solutions is greed.
You're suggesting asking the media to reverse and be honest. Everything you just described sounds-like your government is being run by corporations. How else would you explain the nothing to do action. Murdoch will hijack the discourse.
Just watched a report about dozens of social houses being knocked down for a housing development but only 9 out of the almost 200 new units were slated for social housing and I'll bet the developer got a big chunk of government coin set aside for social housing for pretending to do a good thing... how is that helping? Now there are even less units than before available to low income families... That is not helping at all.
Exactly right.. Its pure greed.. There are things that could be done to take heat out of the market, but they certainly won't.. There too much money at stake in way of peoples investment portfolios.
I truly feel for these people on the streets. 5 years ago I had to declare bankrupt after I had an $8,000 gearbox repair on my vehicle. I lost the vehicle and my income as a courier driver. I was very fortunate to find a place to live as I could not afford the rent after my wife passed away. I am truly blessed to have a nice granny flat and eventually got a disability pension.
@johnblyth: I am so happy things worked out for you. 😊Now pass it on. Get a dog or cat from a shelter, one of the best and wisest things you can do. ❤️$8000??? I would never have that much to pay for a car repair, but even if I did I’d sell the car to a junk yard, (They cannibalise them for parts.) and spend the $8000 on another car.
A warm milo and a biccie and I'm happy.
@@loditx7706
Good on you mate. Keep your place beautiful, you deserve it
@@loditx7706 Thinking the same thing; for $8,000 buy a car.
When I lived in Australia in the 1990s there were no homeless people barring a few individuals who had mental problems. Rents were very reasonable in Sydney back then. These were not topics of discussion in mainstream Australian society. Everyone was focused on football, cricket matches and the Melbourne Cup and Victoria Bitters and Fosters. I look back on that era with nostalgia. That was the golden age.
Sorry mate was on the streets in the 90s and there was heaps. Grey st sacred heart stkilda was giving out 300 meals a day. Salvos on grey st were giving out 600 a night.
About 2/3 of that number were sleeping rough in that local area. Its always been a big problem for australian gov. Most homeless are men.
I was in Sydney in the 90s. I could hardly find a job no matter how hard I tried. The unemployment rate at that time was 10%
@@peterRobinson10101 They say recently that most homeless are women, by far.
Australia's Golden Age ended in the mid 80s. Before that time, esp the 50s & 60s, homes were as cheap as. Those who didn't buy a home back then, well there was something wrong with them. Anyone could have bought one. Immigration was in full swing. It was Europeans who came over in masses after the second world war. In the late 70s there were different waves of migrants & refugees, but there never was a housing shortage. To rent was dirt cheap. I don't know why Australia went from being the bountiful country to one where working ppl have to line up at charities for their weekly bag of tinned soups, baked beans, etc. Everyone ate the best quality food, went out on weekends with friends, worked 38 hours/week, unlike now where they work 60-70 hours per week & some don't even take their end of year holidays. They're working 2 or 3 jobs & still have no money left over for food & heating. This must be fixed asap.
the 70s and 80s were even better.
Great presentation. Good on you ABC.
For decades everything has been geared towards the real estate game in this country. To the detriment of everything else.
Until housing is looked at as a right rather than commodity nothing will meaningfully change.
You have the right to privacy, free speech, freedom of association, religion, assembly, press and movement. These freedoms are inherent in every individual and come at no cost to others.
You have absolutely no right to housing or any other goods or services. You have to earn those.
@@davidg1838 I guess the debate is whether A) we agree that we live in a country where those with the greatest needs and vulnerability will be supported and B) to what extent those supports are provided, and to whom. It's an inherent tussle in every society. Do we look away and allow those people to suffer? Or do we subscribe to the view that, if those most in need are supported, then we all benefit. I'm not able to see how a 73 year old woman being unable to pay current market rates for a rental home is a good thing for any of us. If her six months of insecure accommodation had rolled into six years or sixteen years - the financial costs of not homing her would be far greater. In the form of more medical care, more hospital admissions, perhaps a victim of crime requiring police services, and more time taken with social service organisations. The questions about human dignity and the inherent value of an individual are for another day.
@@comealongcomealong4480 We live in a country where those with the greatest needs and vulnerabilities absolutely can be supported. It's called private charity. It produces far better outcomes and it was the primary method of helping the poor long before the welfare state took over. We don't need to attempt to justify forced redistribution by saying that "if those most in need are supported, then we all benefit". We simply need to allow private charity to operate, free from govt intervention and free from govt competition. The same goes for labour and property markets.
We also should not try to justify providing tax-payer funded housing to an individual in order to avoid needing to provide other tax-payer funded services. The fact is that anything provided via taxation is extortion and there are far better solutions, such as family, friends, community and private charity.
Neither human dignity nor anyone's perception of human value are justification for wealth redistribution. It is immoral behaviour and it fails to provide good outcomes.
Hookers and cocaine too.
had a debate with people who said homelessness isnt a human rights violation
Many Australians mocked America for their long standing homeless issues, however Australia now has exactly the same issue and right now the problem is uncontrollably spiraling at an exponential rate, whilst government immigration and Short Term rentals policy is only magnifying the issue dramatically. AirBNB is the elephant in the room here, this above all else has stolen hundreds of thousands of long term rentals, whilst they enjoy all the tax benefits of long term rentals.
Unfortunately Australia squandered all the good years … look to housing problems in San Fran and LA. In fact it should be viewed as an omen to what might happen in Australian cities.
We need to climb off our high horse and look around. We’re the lucky country that has squandered 30+ years ‘with no recession’.
This video doesn’t look like success to me.
@@matthewjarvis3586 "the lucky country" originally meant that we are a mediocre country with bad leaders, that just got lucky.
@@pronumeral1446 What made us the 'lucky country' was our relatively small population compared with the land available for agriculture and housing. We have long since overpopulated ourselves right out of that advantage. By means of immigration, not by reproduction.
@@janusfashionenrertainment You make lost of uninformed claims here, whilst appearing to be blind to the realities of the rapidly increasing homelessness issue in Australia. Ignorance is no shelter my friend.
America is a third world crumbling country and Australia has only just started on the road of this problem, we are not going to see that happen here or not at the same level We dont have the same numbers and our govt is actually doing something about it. Unlike any American govt who has done nothing for their people but still tell them they are free and have a good life. Pathetic really.
Fellow Australian here guys...
I am 45, always had a home, left home at 17 and worked hard.
This year, my boys moved out and I lost my rental.
I found myself homeless with my 14 year old daughter.
Absolutely appalling and terrifying. Temporary accommodation was maxed out, and people were in trouble everywhere.
I finally got a little place and I am so grateful. I just know SO SO many people that have also been hit with homelessness or know someone else.
Bless you all and may Australia go back to how it used to be. 🇦🇺
Also had to give my beautiful dog to someone. Even though I have a unit, I have been told NO Pets. That is so so unfair. That beautiful girl is part of our family and she helps with my PTSD. We should be allowed to have our pets
I'm homeless in Perth, 3 yrs since my 22yr relationship met covid.
I have upto 6 or 8yrs to wait for my house. I have been bashed for sleeping in the wrong place a couple times now, lost a tooth and more. But im a clean white male so I'm right at the bottom of the list. It hurts...
Aussie federal government has money for nuclear submarines but none to spare for social housing for the poor..
How pathetic can one get??
After Ocean Gate, we need top quality submarines.
We have more than enough money, Labor is just choosing not to address it, they'd rather spend it on tax cuts or the submarines as you said. Let's just remember it comes election time.
Blame the Liberals not Labour who actually is trying to build houses right now and the Greens are blocking them with the Liberals how crap is that.
@@ahm6006what did the liberals do about social housing, absolutely nothing, no social housing built while the liberals were in, just gave taxpayers money to churches to build up their portfolios & profits, liberals didn’t help anyone, not even through fire or flood, this has been coming for a lot longer than the labor government has been in..
And they're sending I think, $110 million to the Ukraine. Wtf for?? We need that money here. Ukraine have enough world support without Australia's too....
I can't accept that we arrived in this situation, homeless, war, people dying in refuges camp and we are crying for billionaires that died inside of a f.. creep hand made submarine with a game pad control that spend 200.000 for a ticket.
$250 000 a ticket.
Yeah. That titanic is infuriating to me too. I mean it is just a handful of rich kids playing Russian roulette and the whole world is at standstill, among all the misery that surrounds us. Smh
Agreed, I honestly did not feel as bad for the victims of the Titan Submersible as I would for anyone homeless.
There were a lot of funny jokes made though
Irma's closing statement was so powerful. Where is the kindness and compassion for Australians who don't fit the bill for a "perfect tenant"? The state of affordable housing in Australia is a blight on our nation's character.
Unforgivable government cruelty. Never forget, never forgive.
This is deliberate and created by printing $1.4 trillion.
More than any other country per capita.
Lowe Scott and Joshua.
We were set up to fall.
It's an ecosystem created by symbiotic relationships between government, banker & brokers all hand in glove in spiking home prices & rentals.
@@sekhariyer3980well yes. The majority of politicians in Australia own investment property
Fact is, nothing is going to change anytime soon. As someone in their 40's, I'm glad I saw the end of a good era. I do feel terribly sad for the kids of today and the future they will be facing when they grow older. We set them up to dream and they can do great things, only to have the weight of life drag them down into the gutters of unemployment and homelessness.
Australia is becoming a third world country, same as USA, UK and New Zealand. All of our wealth has been taken by China and other export-driven countries. The "End of an Era" you reference was the end of the manufacturing powerhouse days of the West and its tail-end up to the late 80's. It feels like we getting poorer, because we ARE getting poorer.
Well this is true. I relate to this being 30 now. Peers however who manage good careers like drs and nurses are secure. Anyone with health issues etc unable to manage high stress jobs are screwed .there's no way out of this bs
Absolutely heartbreaking and gut wrenching. The very same thing is going on in the USA. Literally mirroring each other, same issues, same demographic of individuals. System is irrevocably broken and needs a serious overhaul.
Totally. The Australian government recently pledged another $110 million of assistance to over 42 million Ukrainians in food, shelter, medicine, etc. This brings the total support to $790 million for Ukrainians! This is in addition to the $75 billion the American government has pledge. Moreover, the Australian government has budgeted over $260 billion (over 20 years), for the nuclear submarine defence project while the American government has budgeted over $810 billion in jets, missiles, submarines, cyber security, etc. for just 1 year.
Yet both are unable/unwilling to help under 120 thousand homeless Australians & under 600 thousand homeless Americans!? How can helping over 42 million Ukrainians be doable but helping under 720 thousand homeless people be still a struggle for politicians? Politics? Apathy? Business? Madness? Greed? Fate?
Is such an attitude & policy sustainable? Are some politicians, bureaucrats &/or elites more interested in building/fostering a dystopia than an utopia for Australia & American? Are they aiming to make America & Australia into the next Brazil or Argentina? Or more like Elysium with bottom 90% of the population living in squalid dystopia while the top 1% live in a luxurious utopia?
How much will it cost to provide simple/basic food, bed, clothes, shoes, water, blankets, shelter, safety, security, etc. to under 720 thousand people? $110 million? $790 million? $75 billion? $260 billion?! $810 billion??!!
@@user-DongJ Thanks to those jets, missiles, submarines and cyber security; Political negotiations are much more in our favour as there is no room or option for a military conflict against the European or Western powers.
Australia has done serious damage to it's economy over the past 30 - 40 years. That being said; we do have some great social programs; Medicare, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Unemployment benefits [$850 fortnight with rent assistance].
The problem is not solved with more money; The key is to make money go further.
The single best thing to do is reduce energy costs. The price of everything goes down; the reverse is also true and that is what we are experiencing for all energy.
The housing crisis can be fixed within 3 years; slash immigration by 80%.
Because the USA owns Australia. it's the US disease.
It's greed. Late stage capitalism.
@@chippyjohn1
That was the price Australia paid to keep China off of them.
The Australia that I want to live in and for my daughter to have a bright future in, is a nation that cares for its own. A fair go for all.
To my shock, once you go abroad, even temporarily or on holiday, if something happens - you are on your own. They will do NOTHING to help you. Not even a phone call to see if you're dead or alive. In Australia, it's not so much the govt helping the poor, but the charities helping the working poor with the usual bag of tinned food. Soups, baked beans, frozen old bread, stuff like that. Ppl are working 2 or 3 jobs yet can't afford to put food on the table and live in freezing cold homes bcz they can't afford to turn the heater on.
this breaks my heart, 2 years ago, myself, my elderly mother, my fiance and our beautiful dog and cat were on the verge of becoming homless after our rental property owner decided to sell our unit we lived in. we were one of the blessed ones, we found a house and even though we pay here 570 wk and are struggling as were all on pensions, were blessed that we have a roof over our head :) we currently dont have a working heater though and when its minus 3 degrees in the morning we freeze but at least were not out in the wind and the rain. i wish everyone doing it rough finds a way out. no one deserves to live like that
@@buckwheat3869 ive just been diagnosed with cancer for the 3rd time and cant work. what a horrible thing to say to somebody
@@buckwheat3869 THEY are taxpayers . THEY have paid taxes and continue paying taxes . smdh
@@buckwheat3869
Careful you too may end up with a debilitating illness, unable to work and find yourself in a vulnerable position. Australia is a social democracy and taxes are paid by people expecting entitlements such as health care ,education and social housing. Big business is the biggest welfare bludger getting tax exemptions and subsidies. In fact I'm still paying tax for the job keeper subsidy to big business which went straight in the pockets of CEOS and share holders.
Did you even read what they wrote? They're all on pensions, so they've already paid off their duties. You're selfish.
@@buckwheat3869apparently you do not know or even care that the biggest leeches are politicians and corporations! You most likely do not move your mouth towards Walmart and your government like the way you do behind a keyboard
Negative gearing. That's it. A ridiculous concept that ultimately led to this pitiful situation.
As a person who came to this country 15 years ago, I was shocked by the many systems that exist to keep the rich rich and poor, destitute. The idea of "a fair go" is a joke
I think the "fair go" did exist once but it was back in the 80s and 90s. No way is the "fair go" real anymore.
Its Australia it has alot of systems to help people which is more that nearly all other countries including your own, thats why you moved here.
@@Caroline.123 slightly presumptive of you Caroline. You know absolutely nothing of my country of origin or circumstances but you see fit to make such flippant and idiotic replies.
So true. Property owners and landlords are getting protected at all costs.
@@enthusia86 If you were paying two mortages like I am . . . I dont think you would agree with that. The rent I charge my tenant is in line with how much more I have to pay the bank and its still short . . . I am also trying to keep the house I am in
I'm sorry to see you Aussies going through this. You're not alone.
It's happening to us in the UK too. Our handlers are doing it on purpose. It isn't a mistake.
Best wishes & thoughts, I don't know what to say.
So why are they doing this to everyone? What is their end goal?
@@johanna5688 Only desperate people do menial work. Simple as that.
Also they've made a generation of people genuinely believe that their house is worth a million pounds.
The people with the means have made a killing on the way up by charging 2% to buy & sell houses that are worth millions.
'Men go mad in herds, and recover one by one.'
The reason productivity is so low at the moment is because all the money is in housing....it can't be earned at work or by doing anything honest, so people soon figure 'what's the point?'
You're either on the right side of the housing market which includes the rental extortion racket, or you can quite frankly eat s*** & die. I just wish our handlers would make that their official election manifesto because at least it would be honest then.
What is the end goal?
Total collapse. Social catastrophe. Human nature never changes. Greed, greed and more greed until the whole thing buckles under its own weight. Don't listen to the media, the government, your teachers, your friends, anybody. Nobody knows what they're talking about and if you buy today you'll spend a massive amount of time suffering in negative equity in the future. Masses will go bankrupt. A house made of bricks is not worth more than £100k, I promise you.
@@johanna5688Power and control. They have to,get rid of the mid income earners. Elites and poor. That is the end game. Oh and a REDUCED population.
@@johanna5688 "You will own nothing and be happy."
@@johanna5688 just to be better than everyone else. It is a return to feudalism, this time by corporations and billionaires, who want to be the minority land owners pushing peasants to work and an early grave.
I just managed to get a plate of food to homeless guy who is bunkered down under a stairwell outside the building that I work in. We have large kitchens here and we throw too much food away every single day. He was very grateful. He said he hadn't eaten for several days. The point is, he had a work visa and a good job. He was paying his own way. For reasons unknown to me, his work visa was swapped out for a bridging visa. So now he's not allowed to work and is not entitled to any govt assistance whatsoever. Once he lost his job his "Flat mate" booted him out because he can't pay his share of the rent and bills etc. This is happening all over Oz. We have to be a better country than this.
I'm not good putting things into words I'm getting tired of everyone having to fight to survive. I just want the wealthy to take the burden instead the venerable. I'm tired of everything revolving around money and line goes up.
I hear you. I am being forced out of my city. Leaving my family behind. A little jaded I would say, but it is what it is😢
the cause of the lack of housing is IMMIGRATION... this is nothing to do with the wealthy other than to keep the economy going by the immigration ponzi scheme..
Same, buddy. And how many people have been conditioned to want to do "better" for themselves (which is kind of fair, but they more often than don't, don't realise that sometimes it's at the expense of others).
@@last_samurai6690 That too defeatist
@nickdryad in a sense. But again it is what it is. I am anit of stoic/existentialist. I know for most part there are no answers but tradeoffs but I an OK. Probably better than a 80% of the worlds population. 😆
AirBnB has to be looked at. I feel a lot of people are buying and renting houses ONLY for AirBnB at ridiculous rates. Especially around popular areas.
Yes - walk around the Sunshine Coast and lots of empty houses waiting for tourist system. Lots of young people at work working full time but can't afford rent or can't get a place to stay while racking up HECS debt
so where do you think the demand comes from... IMMIGRATION... open your eyes, it will be a first..
Good on them for being financially disciplined and responsible. Most AirBnb owners are middle class, hard working Australians. Jealousy is a curse indeed
@@joellewhite912 if you can’t afford to live n the sunny coast don’t live there. It’s sought after and expensive. Choose somewhere that suits your budget. It’s not hard mate. Popular places to live arena luxury not a right.
As for airbnb it’ll collapse. But increased cost of living and mortgage repayments near doubling will mean 90% of people will not be holidaying. Cost of keeping those Airbnb properties will go through the roof and their profits will take a huge hit. It won’t last.
My 75yr old mum + her 3 cats had her rental of 25 years sold to renters now homeowners and it's hard for her to find a place with only one house under her belt. She lives with her junkie drug-dealer friend who only has 3 sleeps to Christmas no matter what month it is, while I am out the back of this house in a janky caravan with the 3 cats to support her. It's been a year now and it's so hard to find a place to live. Shoutout to the homeowners who done the same to others and read this, you don't know it but I can guarantee you've wrecked a life or two.
Edit: the house I was in had a home invasion and I am now recovering from a diffuse axonal injury (shout out to BIRU for being so amazing) . So now we are in a $100 per night motel that has no sink besides the one in the bathroom. Yay to the crisis 👌
We have just been moved from category 3 to 1 on the priority list, we were told by junction housing that cat3 would never get us a rental, yet they still applied for houses knowing this...turns out you have to nearly die to be considered.
I've seen the same thing happen all across the UK over the last 1-2 years and it makes zero sense for these hypocrites to call it a "housing crisis". There's more than enough housing, but rent is artificially inflated to keep people on the streets. And seeing the same thing popping up in Australia just scares the sh*t out of me coz it seems coordinated 🤬
And Australia is the last destination left, too. There is nowhere else to go after that.
@@Soberish91
To some landlords, an AirBnB is cheaper and more profitable than a long-term rental to a bad tenant who is protected by government rental laws.
Landlords are using apps now with algorithms that keep rents as high as possible.
Bring back a totally government funded Housing Commission and stop paying CEO ridiculous salaries. Tax corporations, levy AirbnB operators
the problem is excess demand.... and that is all down to immigration... open your eyes.. doing what you say will not create one new home... get it ?
@@soulsphere9242 It has a lot to do with it. Every RBA rate rise puts more dollars in the bank CEO pockets to the detriment of everyone else. The book up massive yearly profits. Don't even start with dividends going to super fund holders. The bank CEO dividend they receive and hold annually outpaces any private super fund. It is pure greed from the top.
Big corps who don't pay tax here can just as easily move to other countries and take thousands of job opportunities with them. Which would you prefer? Taxing big corps and losing jobs in Australia or Thousands of unemployed Aussies who will have to compete for a smaller employment pool. Pick a struggle
@@mischiefaz If they dont want to pay tax, let them leave. Someone else will start a business to sell their items.
@@soulsphere9242 that will not work for most companies like IT, retail etc.
I see this while seeing real estate agents smugly sticking their faces on signs and buses saying "proudly sold by blahblah! Average sale price 1.5 million!" And I think "congratulations. You sold a property in a market so desperate you could spit in their face and you'd sell it. And you likely put a desperate family in debt for the next 30 years. Way to go."
@phantomstrider It's interesting to me how quietly and efficiently the National Real Estate Industry has mostly avoided investigation over the last thirty odd years. This sector, it's Principals and agents, have directly benefited from annual increases in property prices. They applaud 👏👏👏 because their own commissions, company profits and personal wealth all increase - just like the banks!! The Real Estate Industry is known for their conservative, small-government, political views. They have well funded lobbyists working hard to maintain the status quo in the Australian housing market. I have never once heard a Real Estate Industry identity speak out on behalf of a tenant, or speak out against borderline criminal conduct from one of their own. They have collaborated uniformly AGAINST the interests of Australian taxpayers.
People who aren't homeless keep saying "they" . It's not a problem for Them It's "we". It affects all of us if people are homeless. We cannot separate from people.
it really shows how badly our country is managed, from most liveable city to we don't have enough room for our own
i live next door to a 3-bedroom government house a family of Aboriginals lived there for 20 years till all the ladies kids were adults then they kicked her out and this family was quiet and tidy so i dont know why they could give her a flat as she was disabled but they never gave her a flat, but whats worse is that house has been empty for over a year
P.S. Once housing was considered a necessity for life and the ground stone of a prosperous nation. Now Housing is just a financial ponsy scheme, and any sense of human necessity has left the minds of the political system. It's a sad future for Australia, in fact it is a death nail because the people who are homeless and becoming homeless are the hard workers who have made this nation continue to prosper. Australia looses out on many fronts when people are under stress from personal security because their thoughts are consumed with surviving rather than being productive for their community or nation.
Exactly. Houses became an investment not family homes for generations.
Absolutely. The Australian government recently pledged another $110 million of assistance to over 42 million Ukrainians in food, shelter, medicine, etc. This brings the total support to $790 million for Ukrainians! This is in addition to the over $260 billion needed for the nuclear submarine defence project!
Yet it is unable/unwilling to help under 120 thousand homeless Australians!? How can helping over 42 million Ukrainians be doable but helping under 120 thousand homeless Australians be still a struggle for politicians? Politics? Apathy? Business? Madness? Greed? Fate?
Is such an attitude & policy sustainable? Are some politicians, bureaucrats &/or elites more interested in building/fostering a dystopia than an utopia for Australia?
How much will it cost to provide simple/basic food, bed, clothes, shoes, water, blankets, shelter, safety, security, etc. to under 120 thousand Australians? $110 million? $790 million? $260 billion?!
This is so sad. Everyone should have a place to call home no matter their station in life. We are having the same problems here in the states. I am so sorry.
It's going to get really bad. The perfect storm is brewing. Huge immigration paired with low home building. Material costs rising. Grocery prices rising. Eventually, the homeless and those in poverty will turn to crime, and to violence, and I cant say I blame them.
Alot of people can't afford meat these days but I tell you what, there's alot-of-it walk'n around
That’s what the communists said before they went around and shot all the ‘landlords’ and took their property
@@znmcmhn Good idea, like who doesn't like a good thigh now and then.
I will support them if it hits the fan. We need to teach a lesson about greed to our dirty Government.
Immigration was the key word here
It *all* comes down to a lack of supply due to decades of treating housing as an investment someone else pays off, airbnb profiteering, land banking by developers and a complete underfunding of public housing that would make Thatcher or Reagan proud. This is a catastrophe that will not be fixed until after many of the people interviewed are dead - probably from exposure. All the minds who've created this should be named and shamed.
Lol no why should we wait until we and our own die for their profits? If as you say this isn't getting fixed without a few deaths why should we throw grandma outside to the wolves and not idk the landlord who put her out there? I mean if they just let granny live out her days in the home that's a fair price to pay for not being lynched isn't it?
Putting the blame entirely on a lack of supply is a neo-liberal slight of hand to distract everyone from the consequences of decades of unsustainable immigration.
No, there is no lack of supply in housing. What we have is an excess of foreigners moving here and competing with Australians for the building stock that already exists, and for the building materials and building skills that already exist.
@@chriswatson1698 Riiiight. 350k airbnbs, a nd we're shy about 400k houses. Returning expats who've decided to stay since the pandemic. But it's all due to immigrants? Without immigration, our population would be declining and there'd be no youthful workers coming on. This is an issue that's decades in the making. "Stopping the Boats" won't help.
@@chriswatson1698 The Government needs a return on investment via the universities.
This breaks my heart…that beautiful lady at the end saying “we need to look after each other a little better..” Australian’s need to decide what kind of society they want to live in…we were always so proud of not being so American…and here we are racing towards exactly that kind of society. Shameful and sad
actually it's pretty much worse than america already. The rent prices that cause this don't affect the majority of americans only californians
People aren't allowed to build their own dwellings. In ancient times it would be a joke to be homeless because they built their own houses out of commonly available materials. Homelessness is a symptom of our legal system that forces you to be the slave of a corporation.
It was actually a total shock to me to know that housing is a business in Australia 😢
Can you leave housing aside please 🙏🏻
Everyone should have a house
Business or not, there are too many people and too few homes in australia.
Yeah true I don't save any money, spend it all on holidays n shit and can't even buy a small home!!!
no, its not a right to have a house.
it is a right to have shelter, not to live in your own house.
you earn the ability to have a house, you do not have it granted upon starting existence.
not everyone can have a house in Australia, it ruins the depth and nuance of a successful country.
@@xkimopye
You mean too many people but too few places worth living in in Australia.
@@jsbtools7026you just admitted its your own fault
All good. Labor is fixing the housing crisis by intaking 300000 more migrants this year
Incorrect number. Correct number is 900,000 for the next 12months. Deal with India will bring more people uncapped. Good luck competing for jobs and housing.
@@Bobotheclown98 You said! India is overpopulated with 1.4 billion people, Australia has only 26.2 million! In 1988 it was 16.3 million, so we have almost 10 million more in just 35 years! Immigration need to be curb, urgently! All this people must live somewhere, so there is a serious danger of social tension near future to come.
@@Bobotheclown98nice nowmyou can train them to build cheap housing
Hope you're watching Mr Albanese, remember your roots. This is heartbreaking.
He does not care.
At least he is trying to build houses you know that he cant wave a magic wand, the govt has the land to build 8000 its takes time you know. The greens keep blocking it along with the Liberals.
He's more worried about the voice than homeless people!!
I'm living with a disability that causes excruciating pain and means that a normal job is really difficult. I'm in a private rental but they just keep putting the rent up and the prospect of being made homeless is terrifying.
I'm trying to start a business of my own, working at my own pace making art from nature and really hope that I can make enough to satisfy the landlords greed and keep a roof over my head.
I'm also disabled (physically and psycosocially) and I had to flee from my home due to domestic violence. I couchserfed for about 2 years before I ran out of places to stay and then I got put in a rooming house for homeless and disadvantaged people. There is constant yelling and banging here from people being violent most of them have drug and alcohol problems so they get violent when they get too drunk or high. I've been on the dhhs priority waiting list since 2018 waiting for a commission house but nothing has come up yet.
@@nrgbunni. Sounds like you're in a tough spot, I feel for you! It's horrible being around violence, abusive people can really make life hell.
I hope things change for you soon mate.
@warbledurbler7905 thank you, you too.
1. Real estate should only be able to be purchased by Australian citizens.
2. Significantly reduce rate of immigration.
Problem solved.
0. Erase negative gearing
It’s interesting how the house has become such a large cost item. Such a basic need yet to have that you now need a million dollars. It’s a strange world.
well take a look back at past generations in say, the UK... nothing strange at all other than people cannot face reality...
Houses themselves do get inflated over time due to material costs, increasing cost of labour, quality expectations, et c., but it's not the house that has become the large cost item, the land which the house is on has.
Major cities need to review their zoning laws - unfortunately in places like Sydney the only way is up
@@ratinthetub5048 Instead of money actually circulating, invested and returned too Society, it's actually been property-locked for 30-50 years. Economies have been trying to mask over it with Stimulus since the model blew up (GFC). This why the monetary-base has diminished. Not-so economic is it.
@@ratinthetub5048 Yep, they've stopped making land. There's only so much of it to go around. That's the biggest driver in the cost of housing.
I am so sorry for these people. There are several shows on YT starting “Homeless in” you add the city: Los Angeles, Detroit, wherever. My heart broke for the guy with 2 dogs. I would have cared for them for him in a heartbeat.❤ maybe offered him a couch, too. I know a woman who became homeless and had a little dog. She was refused shelter services because of the dog. She would not abandon the dog, so lived under a bridge in a dangerous situation with the dog. If I became rich I would fund shelters for people with animals. I knew another man who was not homeless, but lived in a little house paycheck to paycheck and sometimes had little money for food; so he would go without to feed his cats. Had I known him at that time I would have bought him cat food. Poor or homeless people’s animals are not a luxury, they help one survive. People should understand they are family and impossible to discard.
Well done Aussies, your streets look very much like what they are in the US cities, heaps of homeless camping on the sidewalks. I am surprised you caught up so fast.
Whatever happens in America, it will follow here too. Many of the homeless have mental problems. Drink& drug addicts.
this was really sensitively done. thank you. we shouldn't only care about something when it effects us personally.
The problem is the cost of rent, and house prices. Housing is overpriced by a lot.
The problem is Chinese foreign ownership
Sydney isn’t New York. It doesn’t deserve those insane prices
@@thedownunderverse
The real problem is Australia's lax immigration laws.
i've been living in rentals since leaving my parents home for 30 years now. the imperative to acquire a permanent residence was never impressed upon myself, rentals were always affordable and plentiful. over the years i noticed a trend. the trend was, an area would emerge full of arists/students etc, little cool businesses would spring up around the places say... think melbourne fitzroy early 2000's then investors would buy property, build apartment blocks, open crap francizes... and all the artists and students and communities would slowly be priced out of the area. this trend followed me from 3 suburbs in brisbane to almost every inner suburb in melbourne. now i live on the train line in country victoria and lo... the trend has reached here. now i'm in a month by month lease wth 2 kids with a knowledge that if i lose this rental. i've got no idea where i would go. that feeling of uncertainty. i can only imagine what it would feel like for someone who is less street confident or have bonus physical/mental/social complexities. the only solution i can see which doesnt involve governmental action, is a plea to those jumping upon that desperate real estate fomo ... STOP AT ONE DWELLING, please, you wouldnt make a better landlord than the one before you, you are adding to the problem, your desire to become "financially successful/secure" by gathering properties and becoming a LAND LORD where you are even UNWITTINGLY forcing people into homelessness... is actually disgusting. if you have more property than you need to house your family and loved ones, you are either ignorant (excusable until you know) , do not care or even better feel entitled, perhaps the "it's perfectly illegal" argument, which is more disgusting. it really is, i cant see how not to see it that way, still i'll try... there are enough resources on this planet to provide EVERYONE starting with the most vulnerable
No judging your life because I don't know much about you.... but if one has kids, having a permanent place is quite an imperative, if they can.
@@last_samurai6690 having a permanent place is quite an imperative, regardless of kids. having kids, just ads more overall tension and sense of urgency. not having kids and being homeless, different for everyone, the feeling of the threat of attack whilst you are sleeping? i experienced that before being a parent, but i'm sure anyone who has in melbourne round the 2000's could say, being homeless NOW is harder. there's a rise of street violence, less squatter legal rights, let alone squats you can make secure, and everything is more expensive. it's nuts, and was an avoidable consequence yet, changing those policies became a political wedge and that floodgate was left open far to long
I feel your sentiment, but I think there could be landlords, but only if they build the house they are going to rent and if it's to a high/livable standard. This would require government law and legislation.
this is why i live in a very boring suburb called ***** that makes people from northcote shudder but its cheap rent
@YogonKalisto true. The difference with having kids is that as a single person it is easier to pack up and go, share a house with others, sleep in a caravan or car and shower in the gym, etc. Also when you have kids, you think future. Having a house has been the best way to leave something for the kids when you do kick the bucket or help them get into the market using equity in the house. Brief, while I do agree that having a house should be an imperative for everyone, it is 100x when one has kids.
I just sold my house, bought a campervan and pocketed the rest and that is scary enough!! I think about these people a lot.
This is inhumane. It's freezing cold right now, and people have to fend for themselves every single day. This is absolutely appalling for Australia.
To help these people would mean having empathy and sympathy. The only people that have the means and power, usually lack that.
Not only this. The Australian housing standard is appalling. We basically live in houses that are colder than European weekenders. Double glazing is unknown, poor insulation, cardboard walls. People, especially elderly live in indoor temperatures below 18C. Not comfortable and healthy 22C. There are three times more people in Australia dying of cold homes than in freezing Sweden! Many others develop sicknesses like pneumonia. No one helps these people, Centrelink doesn't care, NDIS doesn't care, the department of health doesn't care.
Depends.. Northern Australia is warm..
@@joelc9439- ... and that makes it okay does it?
@@Cacophony314 Did I say it makes it ok? Don't put words in my mouth.
@@joelc9439- It's a question, why did you get so triggered? Weird.
I just got a single bed social housing place in the UK , I feel so bad to know that the last tenent died . I am a disabled single woman and was on the housing waiting list for over 5 years , it shouldnt be so hard that the people needing social housing are actually relieved when someone dies as it frees up a property .
I left London late in 1998. Someone told me back then that the waiting time to get social housing there was 20 years. I hate to think how long the waiting time is now.
@@buckwheat3869 Who hurt you?
Yes, the vultures are circling. Many will be waiting for current residents to die so they can move in soon themselves. Sad but true. Nobody wants to be out in the street.
Well there's a dark joke in Australia that a lot of people's parents need to die so they can afford (inherit) a home or enough money for it.
@@tkatrich3 That is, if their parents have a home to bequeath. I have three yuppie stepsisters who waited for their father to die so they could fight my mother for his estate, which is modest. My whole blended family is one big grub. None of them are in want but they just want more and more.
I wanted none of it.
I understand Kelly. I’m living in terror with neighbors on ice. And them blocking me in with my wheelchair. Police raids. Then police not doing anything. But I have no where to go.
They should raise the rents so the druggies have to move out
Put dog or human waste on the bottom one of your sticks and politely ask both if they will move whilst you secetly and softly rub/nudge to get their attention and to cover the bullies withamwlly shit then on the way home do Thier door handle 😮😢😆😇🙏😮❤ to makehem think twice about doing it again 😢
@L9MN4sTCUk that would not help. There is about 8 of them in a 2 bedroom house.
Remember that bullies don't want confrontation with anyone coz deep inside they are insecure little kids 😢😮🙏
@@man_of_lawlessness they leave their human waste in the bin so easily accessible
Same story here on the west coast of USA. Hundreds of miles of open space yet everywhere the government fights against any attempt to build affordable homes.
Past 18 yrs I've rented 2 homes both ended in ninety day notices. It's terrifying and it's the loss of one's home.
Why is a basic human right and need,left to the market. This I've never understood.
For a modern world we certainly do live in an uncivilized fashion.
This is a GLOBAL ISSUE.
Maybe , but it doesn't have to be an Australian issue. The Australian Government is giving the mining industry a $200,000,000,000 tax break every year.
Not in Venezuela. Or North Korea.
It's so good that Labor have increased immigration so much, investors will get so freaking rich with increased rents and house prices plus Albo giving a massive $69 billion in tax cuts to the rich whilst increasing taxes on millions of peasants
You're on the money unfortunately and I think the politicians have their hands tied by hidden interests
On thursday my bank manager approved my loan ratio for my 4th IP. I'm in hospitality only making 56K p.a! His exact words were "double-down" I can't believe the tax payer hasn't worked it all out how leveraged it all is.
@@znmcmhn You take financial advice from your bank?
@@znmcmhn This is what happens at the end of interest rate hikes. They find the stupidest people to take on loans, because they need to keep volume in an environment fewer and fewer people see sense in borrowing. The banker isn't going to lose their job. Neither will the bank. They'll be all in it together when it falls apart, and likely rescued. You will still have an underwater mortgage though.
@@michaelbananas461 Also - Rate rises will continue higher! Now, they may panic -& attempt back-too 5% but CB will knee jerk because of entrenched inflation. Very sad because it's going to be *market & politically volatile.
Absolutely forseeable outcome of current population transfer rates into Australia that exceed current capacity to build housing. And the cost absolutely and horribly lands on those least able to carry it. We need to talk about what rate of international intake our housing and other infrastructure can support.
This is going on everywhere!
And Albo's answer is lets bring in 700,000 new immigrants next financial year.........................the man is a Genius
Anything to pump up house prices. It's disgusting.
Don't forget, each migrant has to pay minimum of $10,000.00 for each person. The govt are reaping the rewards here. They are earning billions from them. Many are very wealthy and will bring inject a lot of money into the community. There are more Aussies than that who have moved overseas. People come & go too.
The root cause of this insanity is our broken monetary system. When money fails to fulfil one of its main functions as a store of value over time, other more scarce assets will be used for this purpose. This causes asset prices to rise as they accumulate monetary premiums, which in turn make asset owners richer and richer and everyone else poorer and poorer. We’ve now reached the point where the system is so unbalanced it’s become unstable, hence the insanity we see everywhere around us - this being just another symptom.
I’ve noticed this comment has been up for an hour with no attention. People are just like dumb animals and don’t question the system. I suspect your different and stack precious metals
@@Keep_calm_and_slave_on keep on stackin! With the comment "(fiat money) one of its main functions as a store of value over time." Everyone in the PM world knows that is not true. ALL currency HAS and WILL eventually fail. It's never been a store of value and fiat never will be.
Thanks for the video! I am from South Africa and we have always admired Australia as a country and the governance over the nation, and that it will always do everything possible to help needy individuals. I am shocked that the homeless crisis has come to this in Australia which is very similar to the US. This is so sad to older people who are homeless. The government must take action - making available portable homes in communities where people can access food, clothes and other provision, like self contained communities. Australia has the ability to provide sufficiently for its people and I hope it can do so very soon to resolve this crisis.
I’m an Aussie who left Apartheid , when I was very young, been here nearly 40 years.
I have many friends who’ve moved here ( many POC) in the last few years. Try mention we have a homeless problem, or we are like the USA, to them, they will laugh. Yes we have a homeless problem, with much media focus on it ( we’re more PC than the USA) however we have free healthcare and nowhere near the amount of homeless as the USA, but it’s starting to head that way. If you compare us to a similar nation, Canada, we have more homeless than they do.
There's a proposal to house some homeless into unused detention centres. They didn't say anymore so I don't know. The biggest part of homeless are older women, but anyone can be homeless. So many are those who can't find affordable rent and those who haven't been able to keep up mortgage repayments to the banks, whose interest rates have increased each month for the past year. There's also a dire shortage of rentals available like only 1%. This is driving rents up too. Also utility bills go up like gas, electricity, water, insurance, you name it. Ppl have to pay more than they earn and are the working poor despite doing multi jobs, yet can't afford to put food on the table. Parents are going without food so their children can eat. Worse still, whole families have no food and kids are sent to school without food. Charities said they have gone from feeding the poor to feeding the hungry. I couldn't believe what's happening if I didn't see it with my own eyes. Ppl work 2 or 3 jobs, yet can't afford to buy food once bills are paid and are freezing in their cold homes bcz they can't afford to turn on the heating, as it's mid winter here now.
Too many greedy people in Australia. Builders, traders, real estate agens, everyone rips you off.
its the peoples fault they never protested in the streets , they do anzac marches but they never marched in the streets for to fight for they rights they are happy in sneezing and drinking beer as long there is money for a beer Australians do not care about the rest was the same with COVID lock-downs , they are weak people
South Africa was better many years ago but remember South Africa is very corrupt and there's too many people..
This is happening all over the world, United States, Canada, England, and parts of Europe. All parts of the developed world. It shouldn't be like this. Something needs to change in all theses nations.
The death of the middle class. It's happening all over the world. Those post-War years seemed so prosperous at the time, but the reality was that us Baby Boomers put an incredible strain on the system. I was born before: Universal Health Care, maternity leave, social housing, day care. I remember the 'good old days' very well. The model for modern capitalist democracies has always been the rich and the poor, with a small middle class. When us Boomers are all dead and gone, life will go back to being a little more 'normal'. The greatest debate surrounds whether or not housing should be a social good or is it merely a for-profit business. And who is deserving of assistance? In 1970, in Canada, as a single parent, my lot in life was very meagre indeed. I put myself 'thru: high school, college and university, working full-time and part-time. Rarely did I qualify for any social services. It's as if we've gone from one model to the other. Now, as seniors who live on a fixed income and who own nothing, living in a run-down hi-rise, all we can do is make the best of things!
Hi, you're very close to the mark here but the reality is that the system could handle those kinds of safety nets and the like if we were still taxing the wealthy properly as we were prior to the prosperity period. These days it's gone right back to stuff like Public Transport with my (boomer aged) Mum remembering the tram network around Ballarat as she caught it to school, but Ballarat being difficult at best to get around by the time I came around.
What's happened is that the wealthy used the prosperity to convince your generation and the generation preceding you that they shouldn't have to pay for anywhere nearly as much as they once were, and then when the prosperity ran out they (of course) started saying we'll have to cut services etc instead of charging them the higher tax rates again. Compare wealthy tax rates from say, the 1930s-50s to the 1980s, 90s and now, or heck even wages for CEOs and the like...that's where the strain is really coming from, a bunch of wealthy leaners who don't want to contribute their fair share given how they almost always rely on externalised costs to make their money.
Thank you for your time, an angry millennial whose obsessed with reading up on history both recent and ancient, and can't help but notice the discrepancy between what is said and what history says.
I think it was Stalin who said ' the middle classes will be crushed between high interest rates and high inflation. He probably didn't think it would be the capitalists that would be doing it though
Heart wrenching, I'm not far off being homeless myself with 2 dogs as my landlord wants me out as l can't afford to pay the increase of rent as l live on $53 per week after paying my rent and he wants to put the rent up another $50 as that's where all houses are fetching this amount or more. I honestly don't know what to do, I'm 53 years old and live with chronic pain, scoliosis of the spin and l haven't been able to work now for 5 years, l also have epilepsy. If it wasn't for my children l probably would have taken my life by now. We all need some help.
So sorry Tracey, this is just awful. Please try not to fret too much, it won't do your health any good. But give the salvos a ring and any of the other services available in your area. I wish that I had a spare million bucks to give you. God bless you and your 2 pups. Saying a prayer for you.
Maybe see if it is at all possible to love to a smaller city where rent are still affordable
@traceykitchin9722 Hi, thanks for writing so truthfully here about your rental increase. It'd be so helpful to receive some additional support funding to cover the rental increase. Have you felt like talking to Centrelink to see if there's anything they can do, or even your local church community? Nobody benefits if you don't have a roof over your head! The very best of luck 🍀
Aren't you getting federal disability? Chronic pain is #1 readon for long term disability. You took care of your children, now it is their turn to care for you!
@colleenpeck6347 maybe the kids re still small buy also in the West, we have lost that family bond and responsibility. Many developing countries do not have social welfare, yet families look after each other, particularly in circumstances like these. 😪
Im Canadian and saw this coming and got the opportunity to buy an old trailer and a piece of land for 55k.Ive never been on a vacation and at points was paying around 70 percent of my income on my very small mortgage.I have no running water,heat and a tarped roof.I still consider myeself fortunate.Paid my mortgage off last January and still dirt poor.This is going to get so much worse.
I'M 1 STEP AWAY FROM BEING HOMELESS TOO AND MY HEART BREAKS FOR US & EVERYONE ELSE TOO !!
Why? What has your path been to this point
@@skylinevspec000 I'M DISABLED AND MY HUSBAND JUSTS SURVIVED 4TH STAGE SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER & SSD DOESN'T PAYS ANY ONE VERY MUCH & THE RISING PRICE ON OUR MORTGAGE & EVEN WHEN WE SELLS OUR HOUSE, WE CAN'T SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO FIND ANOTHER PLACE TO LIVES & SO, WE'RE STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE !! & I DON'T WANTS TO PAYS WAY TO MUCH MONEY ON A DUMP EITHERS !! WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MUCH SMALLER PLACE CAUSE IT'S ONLY 2 OF US NOWS! I'M NOT GETTING ANY MORE CHILDREN & SO THAT DOESN'T HELP US OUT TO MUCH EITHERS ! & UNFORT. WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER EITHERS BUT, NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BEA SENIOR CITIZENS YETS !! TIMES ARE HARD ON US !! IDK WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO!?
I have been living in a women’s shelter for 8 months now and I can say it has caused me immense stress. The housing department has so many requirements you need to meet in order to qualify (applying for private rentals even with the huge rent cost). As much as they try to say they keep DV victims safe, I don’t believe I’m convinced. I’m a white straight woman, so I can only imagine how much worse this could be for First Nations people. Anyone struggling, please take care of yourself and reach out to Vinnies/Wayside Chapel/Safe Haven/Community centres. You all deserve to feel safe and heard!!
From what I’ve learnt through this experience, is that I don’t trust every support service. Mission Australia has some “support” workers that have made mine and other people’s lives a complete mess and exposed them to further trauma. The system isn’t working for the people that are most vulnerable - more support and safe housing is needed..
Im sorry you've been through all this 😢 do you have relatives? Parents?
It must be really hard to be on this way. Strenght and warmth hugs! ❤
Regards from the woods in México 😊
@@ErikamGar You’re so kind! I hope you’re doing well ❣️ I left my parents when I was 17, but last year I was with my mum and her boyfriend. Due to domestic violence in this situation, I ended up needing crisis housing to escape again…
Take care!
@@Mformaddii I see 😔😔 I wish I could help you by letting you live in my land, it is huge. Try to find support or do gofunme! Blessings 😊
Coalition governments caused all this mess now labor have to try and fix which will take years to get this problem under control.
@@buckwheat3869 who are you even talking to
Australia is rich enough to find solutions to homelessness.
Do it.
I felt sorry for that young guy Sam. He seems like his hearts in the right place but he's been delt some pretty shitty cards... Good to see he got a warm roof over his head. I hope things pick up for him.
This is True
As a Social worker I have not been able help so many young kids too. A young girl bought an un- roadworthy car just to sleep at night. This was here in Melbourne. In a very plush suburb.
I currently get shifted from house to house on the rental roundabout. For no reason, I just get moved on, no doubt like many others. Each move is to a worse unhealthy house and higher rent. I am at a point where I know a can't afford to live in a house any more. I live with chronic heart failure but get little assistance and no disability etc. I hope to one day get some medical help to improve my condition and get back into some kind of work as I really don't like living like this. Every day and night is consumed with the fear of what I know is going to come soon and I have no way to stop it or options to navigate through it. Living on the street means I loose the tools I need to work in the future. living on the street means I loose everything and likely including what's left of my health and death from exposure. The thought terrifies me :(
This segment states that there was a rise in homelessness among females at 81.7% however, it fails to mention that 70% of homeless people are men (260,284 men compared to 106,119 women). It's a strange way to attempt to frame the discussion.
If we are going to choose to focus on gender differences, why wouldn't we focus on the more important number (total number of homelessness) rather than the delta from a specific period in time?
Not only that but older women, like the two featured, are the least likely to be homeless.
@@Soberish91 you're probably right. And these women do deserve help, its just that they deserve the same help as everyone else.
They do convenient timeline increases all the time.
Good luck to Sam and his dogs. I hope your study goes well. Stay strong, Mate.
Wishing everyone well.
I’m homeless and disabled . Crazy times in this country
Politicians do this and are terrible at their jobs
so why the IMMIGRATION ?
Yep, thanks to the greens and lnp, as they're blocking new funding for homes
yep they are just servants for the rich
While the pollies have a winter ball. Way out of touch with reality.
And last Thursday on Melbourne radio 2 state government politician where laughing about their wage of $195,000 yearly and the the bonus of $18,000 for being on a committee for a few months or weeks.just one big joke.
with so much land being empty, tons of building materials being almost free, possibilities to get water boreholes, the only obstacle on the people's way is - the government.
Very sadly I feel that Australia is becoming more and more in line with 3rd world countries where a large percent of the population lives homeless or in poverty while the upper class live in luxury. I am seeing a greater divide between the lower and upper class especially in Indigenous communities. My wife and I walked out of a DOH unit 11 years ago in Sydney where we were constantly having things stolen from our garage and I received threats from a drug dealing neighbour before the Police finally caught up with him. We have lived in Private rentals since but not with health issues I am very worried we will end up on the street. Our Landlord has once again increased our rent and now we are really pushing the limits of our budget. We have nothing In Case Of Emergency. if my car breaks down it is off the road for months until I can scarp or borrow the money to fix it and I have had to do most of that myself, I can't afford a mechanic. We are still the lucky ones. DOH waiting list is like a life sentence, 20 years plus.
As they say, "import the third world, become the third world".
I really do not understand. If your budget is so tight, why don't you find some casual part time work to add some income for your emergencies. --- My real question, so you can have some level of security when you have spare money. Like I know a person, who had found a First Aid course , just finished it, and then got a casual part time job as a support worker for the old people. His job duties were just driving the elderly to the supermarket and the clinics , did some simple house chores, earning $24/hour. After working for a few months, he had saved enough money for his emergency needs. And a friend of mine works as an Uber driver after he finishes his work.
@@pccl9358 Different areas are not so easy to find work for starters. Uber is no good for me as my vehicle is too old and if I can't afford emergency money I cant afford to buy a new car. Anyway not getting into this debate as to what someone that doesn't know me thinks I can or can't do and then trying to explain my situation. I've been there and done that. Simple fact is everyone's situation is different and these are very difficult times for most people.
@@OnCountryWithMick Thank you for replying me. Now I understand more cos I left Sydney several years ago but my family is still there. I hope you'll have a much better situation soon. May God bless all the people who are in difficult situations.
exact same situation here in Ireland -whatever it is that's going on . God Bless !
why the demand.. one word, IMMIGRATION.. get it ?
Canada too
The root cause is our broken system of money
@@slop123456789 not it's not... it is IMMIGRATION. Birth and death rates in Australia like most western countries have largely been in balance and even falling now.. so where do you think the population increase has come from.. people dropping out of the sky ???? and when you have a population increase did it ever occur to you that more housing would be needed. ??? it is nothing to do with the money system - get an education, or explain to me why it is a problem with the money system but I guess like all the typical internet trash you will now run for the exit ???
hundreds of thousands of immigrants and no way to vote against it
When an earthquake hits Japan, they usually build many prefabricated temporary houses very quickly. They built 27,000 houses within two months at the time of the Fukushima earthquake without incurring too much cost. There are many ways to construct temporary houses without spending too much. I wonder if the government is exploring these options. It truly breaks my heart to know this reality.
my partner died, I lost all my pets, lots of possessions and money and was a week away from being homeless... knowing people and family doesn't mean they care, I found that out. It's very scary to realize you are totally alone in the world. So much greed, selfishness and lack of caring and love... once you experience that... it's traumatizing. I cried and prayed and put my life in God's hands... and God sorted it out for me... Jesus Christ is My Lord and Savior and I now realize that God Jesus Christ Holy Ghost is all I have... Thank You and Amen.
Amen brother ❤
Problem is that there's a lot of snobbery coming from the Haves towards the Have Nots. They are disgusting. When someone here hits difficult times, they will find themselves fresh out of friends, and that includes lifelong family friends and relatives too. Suddenly they are frozen out like they have the plague. They are heartless. The difficult time will pass, and their lives will improve, but they will never forget or forgive the utter selfishness and abandonment of how these "loved ones" turned their backs on them. God sees everything and HE WILL punish the wicked & cruel who left their besties for dead. Remember- homelessness can and does happen to anyone.
AMEN dear one. NO ONE can do this life without HIM... I hope more people are realising this now. His peace and strength He gives surpasses all understanding. May He keep you and protect you always.
@@rosiemcking72 - thank you and yes, very true... God bless you always and amen.
@@thetheraine Thank you for glorifying the Father. He does great things in us and through us BECAUSE of Jesus!! HalleluYAH!!
Kellyanne broke my heart, I wish I had a little home to give her
Me too
Kellyanne had a home and left it. We only have her word that it was an issue living there.
@@Caroline.123 Yes, this ABC report was honest enough to say she has a government property in Wollongong. BUT, I'm inclined to believe her comments about daily life next to high risk individuals. Have heard firsthand what it's like to live next to neighbours with severe mental health conditions, personality disorders, criminal associates and addictions, managed or otherwise. Having to be constantly alert in a home environment is extremely damaging to a person's health and wellbeing. As she said - "I have to arm myself whenever I'm leaving or returning".
Heartbreaking stuff. I have a tenant paying $250 per week incl power, water & furniture for a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom modern home. All he does is complain- his work is seasonal so on off season he decided to go on welfare instead of getting other work. He whinged about having to keep the garden tidy as he believes that he only signed up for a master bedroom with ensuite and that the garden, whole house, garage & patios weren’t included in the agreement. He also called a TV aerial tech to try and get a $350 aerial installed because the TV that I provided didn’t have perfect reception? This is what puts landlords off - you can get taken advantage of. I’m not greedy at all but once the tenancy agreement is over, the house will stay empty and I’ll run it at a loss until I can sell it.
That must be so hard for you. Thoughts and prayers.
Im in the USA. I became homeless 4/23 because of skyrocketing rents and now having to compete with the immigrants for housing because they're getting everything for free and not having to be on a waiting list. Im retired and disabled. Ive always lived on my own and paid rent not once was i late paying rent. I can't pay rent buy food or buy necessities on my income. Being homeless is expensive. BTW they'll help you faster if you're a junkie cuz poor things they have issues. It just pisses me off. Im 63 yrs old. America you have let your people down. Im very sorry this is happening in Australia.
You are an immigrant or descendant of immigrants!!! Stfu!!
If I ever found out my Mother was kicked out of her house, Crying and living on the Streets, it would break my heart into a thousand pieces.
As an Immigrant, my Mother would live with me. No matter what!
It is a good point. The breakdown of the family unit and the promotion that people should leave home and get their own house has meant that family share houses are few and far between. Maybe we need to look at some other cultures that have extended families under one roof as a means of living in these trying times.
What if she was a drug addict? Or something like that- someone that put your life or your kids life at risk.
Not everyone has family to fall back on😢😢😢
Sorry but, we don't need any more immigrants in Australia currently. I'm not being racist however, too many immigrants are causing major issues in this country including a housing shortage. If we had the infrastructure to support large quantities of immigrants, then I'm all for it, we just don't, and our wonderful Government are ignorant fools.
@@debbiem7443 true ..We need a real solution to the problem ..Not a solution which might fit for 1% of the population
Negative gearing
Air bnb
Investors with 200 properties
Must end
I am currently on vacation in the US for 3 months, travelling through 15 states. I can tell you now, Melbourne is as bad or worse in terms of the amount of homelessness as what you see In places like the bay area in CA.
Queen Street is almost certainly worse.
Australia is on a bad path. I cannot believe the level of increase in the visible homeless population since COVID. Terrible.
Is there anyone who can not make the connection between the increase in homelessness and the ALP bringing in 700K immigrants with their Big Australia policy?
Australia has always been a place of immigration. Millions have arrived to date.
These 700,000 who are arriving is not out of the ordinary. Don't forget, there are also many ppl leaving too. The only difference now is the cost of living and the cost of rentals & of buying a home. This shortage of accommodation is worldwide. Always has been, esp after the second world war. War displaces ppl. If you were one of them, you'd want to leave for a better future too, I'm sure. Everyone everywhere has dreams of a better life. You can't blame them. The world is a global village. Wherever you go in the world, I can assure you there are LOTS of Aussies who have moved overseas permanently. So it's give & take.
We need a moratorium on immigration. Bringing in more builders just means more people competing for land, public services and the time and attention of Australian trained doctors, nurses and teachers.