Affordable Housing Now | Create a fair and sustainable Australia | Science & evidence-based policy 🌏 | Auth by @CrWilliamBourke 20 Burlington St Crows Nest NSW
The ACT Government will build and buy 450 new public homes, as part of what it says is the biggest-ever investment in affordable, community and public housing in Canberra.
https://t.co/2RP1GGpAr9
My @abcnews column: for the first time, I'm optimistic that housing affordability will improve, but there's a dark side. Young families who bought a house with too much debt hoping, expecting, to build equity and wealth, will be devastated.
https://t.co/ZlMbXG7Dwh
@AlanKohler@abcnews We need affordable housing now, the sustainable way. More social housing. Slower migration. Ban foreign ownership.
We need long-term stability in house prices.
@StreetNewsAU We need affordable housing now, the sustainable way. More social housing. Slower migration. Ban foreign ownership.
We need long-term stability in house prices.
@independentaus Hear, hear! 👇
"Since 2011, Australia’s Real Net National Disposable Income per capita has stagnated, recording a compound annual growth rate effectively at zero, all while… corporate profitability... has outstripped inflation by 22 per cent..."
Despite economic growth and rising profits, many Australians have experienced a decade of stagnant living standards.
Lucky for some: Australia’s per capita recession
~ Dr James Schuurmans-Stekhoven
https://t.co/Z4hJ65DtuS
This. 👇
"For decades, wages and property prices broadly moved together. But following the introduction of capital gains tax discounts in 1999, combined with falling interest rates, increase in immigration, negative gearing incentives and expanding access to credit, property prices began dramatically outpacing income growth."
Australia Is Already In A Recession. They Just Haven’t Announced It Yet.
Everyone keeps talking about inflation, but almost nobody is talking about what just happened with unemployment. Australia’s unemployment rate just jumped from 4.3% to 4.5%. Most people look at that and think, “Eh, not too bad.” But unemployment is lagging data. By the time the average person notices it, businesses have already slowed hiring, layoffs have already started, and families are already feeling it.
Like I always say, you do not make money reacting to where the puck is. You make money anticipating where it’s going.
So let me show you something most people are ignoring.
I pulled up the Australian unemployment rate on the 3-month chart. The MACD has only ever crossed bullish FOUR times before today.
1991 recession.
2000 tech bubble.
2007 GFC.
2020 COVID crash.
Every single time, a recession followed. 100% strike rate. Thats the big green zones on the chart.
And now? It has crossed bullish again.
You ca see the green histogram bars I boxed in red before every major downturn.
“But they haven’t announced a recession.”
Of course they haven’t.
Governments only officially call a recession after two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. By the time they confirm it, people have already been living through it for months.
And here’s the scary part.
We now have rising unemployment while inflation is still elevated.
That combination has a name:
Stagflation.
The same economic environment that wrecked economies in the 1970s.
Higher prices. Weak growth. Job losses.
The charts are warning us. You know what's happening.
The question is: Is anyone listening?
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The same issues being faced in Elsternwick are being fought in many local areas around Melbourne.
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