My friends and I scour flatmates dot com and Facebook marketplace, searching for a semi-affordable share house near the University…
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There are significant individual, systemic, and fiscal consequences for our nation’s reliance on private homeownership — consequences that older renters are already beginning to experience.
On Saturday 12th April, activists, community figures, and residents gathered to oppose the selling off of public housing in Waterloo and elsewhere.
Scandinavian Exceptionalism can be impactful in lowering Australia’s high reoffending rates, but this can only be achieved in a place where governments put heavy focus on funding and fixing the root causes of the high crime rates.
Even at Nightingale Marrickville, often framed as the most ethical model, rental prices for studio apartments range from $395-445 per week — set at 20% below market rates.
It seems when the Budget takes one step forward, the display of priority drags them many steps back. This Budget does not prioritise social reform, student poverty or welfare support, leaving vulnerable Australians who seek guidance or support during cost-of-living crises in a bottlenecked welfare system.
The Anglican Church-associated charitable organisation surveyed 45,115 rental properties across Australia. Only three – all sharehouses – were affordable on JobSeeker, 31 on the Disability Support Pension, 89 on the Age Pension and 289 on minimum wage. Each of these numbers accounted for less than one percent of surveyed properties.
A historic building owned by the University of Sydney has been sold for $16.5 million today after a successful bid by a private developer. A bidding war saw prices escalate from $9 to $16.5 million in just over ten minutes.
One of the most significant shifts over the past two years is the relocation of students from inner Sydney suburbs, to suburbs further away from campus — with high numbers living outside three kilometres of USyd.
In capitulating to Labor and passing the HAFF, the Greens threw away the goodwill of renters they had mobilised and ceded to the neoliberal logic that this housing crisis is an issue of supply, not structural inequality.
