Should Politicians Own Multiple Properties?
Imagine a football match where the Liberal Party and Labor Party aren’t just players—they’re also the referees. Would fans stand for that? No.
Yet that’s exactly what’s happening in our housing market. Politicians make the rules (and profit from them) while everyday Australians struggle to afford a home.
When the “referees” benefit from the game they control, it’s not fair play—it’s a rigged system.

Time to demand accountability. Should we ban politicians from owning multiple investment properties?

#HousingCrisis #FairPlay #PoliticalReform #vestedinterests
https://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/should-politicians-be-banned-from-owning-multiple-properties-20250318-p5lkde.html

‘Forever renters’ the new buzzword?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/australians-forever-renters-housing-crisis-property-market/105051202 it’s not a bad article, but the ‘get your attention’ headline is terrible. ‘forever rents’ has been around for at least the last two-decades.

… the trending buzzword is ‘Working homeless’
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/more-than-15-per-cent-of-homeless-people-have-a-job/104700698
#AusPol #ACTPol #HousingCrisis

Notes from Swannanoa finale: After experiencing the challenges of the five months following Helene, I eagerly moved through the kaleidoscopic seasons, observing the early signs of change. I danced in the garden when I found purple dead nettle blooming, and I crowed with delight when the daffodils returned from the underworld.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/notes-from-swannanoa-finale-housing-first-housing-now.html

Homeowner fined $806 for sleeping in her own driveway amid illegal camping crackdown #housing #housingcrisis #australia https://au.news.yahoo.com/homeowner-fined-806-for-sleeping-in-her-own-driveway-amid-illegal-camping-crackdown-002117356.html?guccounter=1

"Despite higher employment rates, higher educational attainment and better health, immigrants overall have lower incomes, are more likely to be at risk of poverty, are particularly exposed to costly private rental accommodation and are underrepresented politically, according to the report."

https://archive.is/LcHC1

The Three Housing Plans: Good, Okay, and Astonishingly Bad #election #HousingCrisis #CanPoli #CDNpoli #politics #Canada #CanadaVotes #2025CdnElection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k6hWGQ83l4

No European city would tolerate the decay and dereliction visible in Dublin.
All of Ireland’s cities and larger towns need positive urban planning. That needs a revolution in government thinking.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/03/26/no-european-city-would-tolerate-the-decay-and-dereliction-visible-in-dublin/ #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #HousingCrisis #Ireland #mastodaoine #mastodonie

Escalating ground rents & service charges, plus restrictions on alterations, make it feel like renting with extra steps

Victoria Tenants Union members were interviewed on radio. UVic's radio station CFUV has a show called Crescendo with these kinds of interviews. Check it out to learn about tenant organizing in Victoria BC.

https://victoriatenantsunion.ca/media/2025/03/26/victu-on-crescendo.html

https://www.europesays.com/1945830/ Will California end environmental lawsuits against urban housing? #BayArea #Environment #HousingCrisis

Record International Student Numbers Strain Rental Market. Australia’s international student enrolments reached a historic high of 1.095 million in December 2024—an increase of 150,000 from pre-COVID levels and nearly 500,000 more than a decade ago. The surge in demand is intensifying pressure on an already tight rental market. #HousingCrisis #InternationalStudents #RentalMarket

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/record-international-students-send-shockwave-through-rental-market/

I'll be glad the day they stop holding the Olympics, a massive waste of money and bribery.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/25/brisbane-olympics-2032-why-these-games-could-turn-out-nothing-like-we-had-planned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj2nUa2vyRQ

The 208: Who can sleep where in #Idaho?

#Housing #globalhousingcrisis #housingcrisis #homelessness #unhoused

Lack of housing means "four in 10 young Canadians, the demographic most impacted by housing costs, report they want to join the U.S. This represents not just economic exposure, but alarming disillusionment with Canada and a weakening of our social fabric that makes it more difficult to form a unified front." #housingcrisis #economy #housing #canada https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/young-people-who-cant-afford-homes-feel-betrayed-by-their-country-why-should-they-stand/article_7433167a-0431-11f0-8cf1-2feef73347fd.html

No.

Next dumb question?

https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/114208926920745907

Land Back 4 Stolen Generations
A Noongar-led campaign to get Sister Kate's land returned to Noongar people
https://linktr.ee/landbackforstolengenerations

Sister Kate’s eviction (March 2025) https://nit.com.au/21-03-2025/16942/church-backed-groups-arrange-police-removal-of-noongar-women-from-historic-sister-kates-site

Stolen Generations Healing Centre
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/sister-kates-perth-to-become-stolen-generations-healing-centre/105032756

BKI - BPU - RAHU (Dec 2024)
https://rahu.org.au/2024-december-bpu-rahu-lt-beananging-kwuurt-institute/

#Boorloo #directaction #landBack
#firstNations #Noongar #SisterKates #stolengenerations #evictions
#housingcrisis #landlords #rent