West End used to be populated by thespians and proletariats, but locals say gentrification has priced them out.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    This comment is poignant.

    She sees the merit in accelerated housing construction, but doubts how affordable those properties will be.

    It’s a mad rush to build houses to attend to the housing crisis but then if no one can afford them, who is it helping in the crisis?

    I worked a site next to a motorway recently, backing up to mangroves and a river, in the middle of a cleared Melaleuca swamp and I thought “this isn’t great, it must be cheap”. 400 to 600m2, house and land was $1.2 million. I remembered I took a photo.

    A photo of a flattened and cleared landscape. Melaleuca trees are visible in the background.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is that none of our levels of government actually want housing prices to fall. They’ll talk a big game about how they want people to be able to afford a home, but then turn around and reinforce to existing homeowners and property investors that they wouldn’t dare do anything to actually harm their investments.

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        This is it exactly. If they really wanted house prices to fall it’s not difficult but that’s never going to happen.

        Just like removing negative gearing or limiting investment properties is never going to happen.