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In Australia up to 70% of the cost of a home is dictated by zoning and land release issues. 70%. Thats not "Something else" thats "The majority of the issue"
by protocolture 2y ago
In Australia up to 70% of the cost of a home is dictated by zoning and land release issues.
70%. Thats not "Something else" thats "The majority of the issue"
Immigration is already controlled here so that its roughly just backfill for population growth targets. State governments are supposed to release enough land to meet population growth targets. They have never met these land release targets.
So "Immigration" is already meant to be factored in as one of many factors, but isn't, and that immigration is a tiny % of the overall problem.
To focus on immigration as the entire issue, as happens quite a bit here, is fundamentally racist. And quite obviously so.
I honestly couldn't give 2 shits about enclaves. I live in a region where the australian government has dumped every refugee population since the 70s and uses it as a baseline for targeted welfare studies. This worst part of living here is the halal pepperoni.
- pcchristie 2y agoImmigration may be "controlled" in the sense that there's rules around it, but it's at record highs (Net Overseas Migration). This is a huge driver of housing prices. No sane person is focusing on it as the "entire" issue, but it's one of the largest drivers, and it's not racist to notice that. To decry it as racist out of hand is precisely the problem.
- protocolture 2y agoIts at record highs because its backfilling a population growth target that had more space. Its not a "Huge" driver of housing prices, its a rounding error off the back of the fact that the states refuse to meet land release targets. Targets they signed up to. And its completely irrelevant to zoning issues. Minimizing the actual issue in favor of reacting to race, man there's a term for that.