One only has to spend five minutes in the company — virtual or real life — of the average member of the chattering classes to realise just how bizarrely out of touch they really are.
In the real world of suburban working families, climate hysteria takes a long, long last place to spiralling mortgages. Hoping their kids finish school being able to read or write is infinitely more important than the supposed “rights” of predators in dresses.
And seeing their country overrun by record-high and rising mass migration is far more important than the chimaerical “economic boost” of importing millions of cheap, foreign workers.
Even the ABC is dimly beginning to cotton on to the link between mass immigration and the housing crisis.
When Australia opens its borders to migrants, already skyrocketing house prices could rise further.
While immigration is not the only factor influencing house prices, it adds to the already strong demand for housing.
Economists say about one extra home is required for every three migrants.
Obviously, they haven’t spoken to local farmers, who manage to cram up to 70 of them into a single, five-bedroom house.
But, on the economists’ numbers, that means that Australia is going to have to build nearly a quarter of a million houses in the next few years, just to accommodate migrants. That’s slightly more than have been built in the last five years of a “building boom” — the fastest in Australian history.
And it doesn’t even begin to factor in normal demand from Australians. I guess Australians can scramble for whatever leavings our elites, addicted to mass migration, bother to leave behind.
Short supply, increasing demand: can any of our economic geniuses tell us what that means for prices?
“If immigration were to come back rapidly, we would see significant upward pressure on rents and significant upward pressure on house prices,” says AMP chief economist Shane Oliver.
Naturally, then, the brains trusts are urging the government to reduce demand by cutting record-high immigration.
Ha. Ahahahahaa.
The Urban Taskforce, which represents property developers, supports calls by some politicians for a higher migrant intake.
ABC Australia
Because of course, they do. They rake in the cash, after all, without having to put up with the downsides. You don’t see many property developers commuting daily for hours on end on crammed freeways, or struggling to get into a GP appointment some time in the next month or two.
Those Australians who live in the real world have other ideas.
About 60 per cent of Australians believe there should be a pause in the intake of new migrants until more infrastructure such as roads, hospitals and houses are built, a new survey reveals.
Tellingly, the survey only gave respondents the option of agreeing to “temporarily pausing” migration. There was no option for cutting migration long-term or even permanently. Even so, two-thirds wanted migration levels cut from their record highs. Slightly more thought the government’s proposed intake of nearly three-quarters of a million people in the next two years was too high. Barely one in twenty wanted more.
IPA deputy executive director Daniel Wild […] raised alarm at increased migration exacerbating the housing shortage, which the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation in April estimated would top 100,000 homes in the next five years without taking into account updated migration projections.
Naturally, then, the Albanese government is doing the complete opposite.
The migration review unveiled by Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil last week included a number of recommendations to smooth the pathway to permanency for temporary migrants and international students.
The Australian
You know, I used to shake my head and tut-tut when I saw a car with a “F- Off, We’re Full” bumper sticker. Now, I realise that crass, they might be, they’ve still got more common sense than our deranged elites.