We know people want to stay in their communities. Not be “gentrified” - that classist word for excesses that displace, ruin, wreck, destroy, harm and kill people - these despicable acts that harm culture, place, belonging. #HousingFirst #HousingForAll #HokesNow #ProtectRenters #auspol #CapRents
I’m mad at greed justifications for the wealthy who argue no government interference - or laws that restrict their capital gains. They don’t want rent caps but happily accept a full 50% tax free when they sell properties whose value rises as rents rise. What an absolute crock! #auspol #caprents
Nobody chooses homelessness. Nobody chooses poverty. This is systemic. We don’t set social security, wages, awards, hours, we don’t set rents - the rents are unaffordable as investment greed surpasses government control. The free market only exists for the investor class. #RaiseTheRate #CapRents
As someone who has been homeless twice, who lives in rental stress, who is an older single woman, finding it hard to get a foot into employment I have been let down by all parties and Independents not calling for better right now. #RaiseTheRate no evictions to homelessness. #CapRents
I sincerely wish for a house I own, expenses that are affordable - you know, enough to eat everyday and buy a piece of fruit if I feel I need it. A cup of coffee and some toast, yes, maybe even with avocado. I don’t have this. #RaiseTheRate #CapRents - This supports businesses too. #auspol
Wow. Geez I’d like assurances that having to share didn’t come at a risk to me or the property. But it seems every single housemate steals and takes and complains about their cheaper rent than mine. If you find that support let me know. #CapRents #RaiseTheRate People are dying! #auspol
Ahh. This is a thread, and I go on to point out the disparity of hunger and rents that encourage homelessness for anyone on social security or casual workers. If people really want to support people and business. #RaiseTheRate and #CapRents is my call. I’m hungry and destitute. Not happy. Harmed. 😔
I survive thanks to beautiful people who donate to me. Otherwise this rent wouldn’t be paid, there’d be no food or anything else and I would be homeless. There is no amount of budgeting help with this imbalance in costs against income. Only #RaiseTheRate will help. #CapRents too. #auspol
This data above is a low estimate of median rents across Australia btw. #RaiseTheRate #IncreaseRentAssistance #CapRents #auspol
I can only dream for a world without rents that cripple me. Never having had the benefit of affordable rents. This has absolutely harmed me, and many others. It continues. We need relief yesterday. #RaiseTheRate #CapRents #auspol
Without caps the greed outweighs people’s ability to pay what investors want them to - investors want one thing - fast guaranteed profits. Renters want one thing: affordable stable housing. #CapRents now. We don’t get tax breaks on our income taxes. And our wages are set. #AffordableHousing #auspol
“Current market value” is manipulated by the ability of investment property owners to raise rents without restraint. Yes! We do need rent caps. Just like we have set wages and income brackets - housing affordability depends on rents being capped. The fee market is exploitative. #auspol #CapRents
$100 a month is $23.06/ week. I’m in private rental my rent went up by 42.5% per week, by $130. That’s $563.33 more per month. Public housing set percentage of income would be fantastic. #PublicHousingNow #CapRents #HousingForAll
Subscriber only article. Apologies. I cannot read this. I think Australia must focus on #PublicHousing disincentivising land banking and house hoarding: “No empty houses while there are people without homes!”🏠 #RaiseTheRate #CapRents and Free TAFE well resourced. #auspol
ACOSS responds to MYEFO: Government must do more, not less #aupolitics #feedly https://buff.ly/3ByS98t
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Shocking homelessness figures must drive Government investment #aupolitics #feedly https://buff.ly/49snPJj
Shocking homelessness figures must drive Government investment
#RaiseTheRate
#CapRents
#HousongForAll
#aupolitics #feedly https://buff.ly/49snPJj
I support a long term rent cap! No more than x% of the CPI increase for year! #CapRents #HousingForAll #auspol #RaiseTheRate
#RaiseTheRate #CapRents #HousongForAll
Support a decent and civil society that look after it’s own. All good people do! It could be you or yours who need this next, and will be if current trajectories continue. Looking after people is what good countries do! #auspol
🙌 100% Yes, yes, yes! #RaiseTheRate #HousingForAll #CapRents! #auspol THIS will fix it!
💯 Imogen easy to, at least, get started as you call out.
#RaiseTheRate #CapRents #HousingForAll
Raising the rate & capping rents are an immediate response that would assist anyone cruelly held hostage to political shitfuckery by the ALNP duopoly.
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60% of #JobSeeker recipients are now on unemployment payments for more than a year, over half have a disability or health conditions and a third are aged over 55. With 15% of #homeless people having jobs. #RaiseTheRate #CapRents #auspol No evictions to homelessness!
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15% of homeless Australians have a job! #RaiseTheRate #CapRents #HousingForAll
Our current neoliberal austerity for social security and lack of a set poverty line and weekly wage as a “minimum wage” is harming us all. #auspol 😡 #HomesNow #AffordableHousing 🏠
#HousingForAll Australia we must fix this now. Nobody deserves to have to live with strangers all their lives. #RaiseTheRate #CapRents - Insist first home buyers go to the front of the line and investors leave it alone. Scrap the discount on capital gains. 1 property only Neg Geared.#auspol
Landlords & real estates have abused their power to put rents up. They say it’s market demand! Ha! It’s manipulated by housing leaving the rental market (AirBnB, sitting empty) and lack of new builds. It’s greed. There needs to be laws that ensure housing affordability. #auspol #housing #CapRents
They should be stating the facts: signs of government negligence of core responsibilities are demonstrable in homelessness. An economy that is clearly NOT working for everyone. #HousingForAll Fix the economics and #EndPoverty #CapRents - it’s necessary for lives to be saved and for hope. #auspol
