Fake left evicts renting elderly onto homeless scrapheap

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They are old, vulnerable and garbage to be tossed away. The Guardian is as creepy as any media entity in Australia:

After 25 years in her Melbourne rental, Louise Wilksch has just two more weeks to find a new home.

The 71-year-old was sent an eviction letter at the start of August asking her to leave her Brunswick East bungalow – and she says it has “hit me for six”.

…“When I recovered from getting the notice, I looked at the commercial rental market, and it was obvious there was no way I was going to find anything.”

About 19,300 Australians aged 55 or over are currently homeless, and 440,000 older households will be unable to find or afford suitable housing by 2031, research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute shows.

It’s not just the elderly, of course. It is all vulnerable renting Australians. The Guardian pretends to care about them too:

The housing crisis and rising financial stress are pushing more than 1,600 people into homelessness each month as demand for sheltering services soars, a report has found.

Homelessness Australia said between December and March demand for homelessness services rose 7.5% across Australia amid soaring rents and record low vacancy rates. In total, an extra 6,658 people sought help.

Emma Greenhalgh, the chief executive of National Shelter, said now was a “watershed moment” for housing policy. She called for “meaningful rental reform by the commonwealth and state governments to make renting a much better experience for tenants”.

Increasingly, it is the working poor as well:

“Our frontline staff are seeing an influx of people seeking help from our homelessness services, and they’re telling us the housing situation is the worst they’ve ever seen it”, Mission Australia’s CEO Sharon Callister says.

Increase in homelessness

“Low income support payments or low wages, combined with the stark shortage of social and affordable housing, skyrocketing rental stress and the rising cost of living, have escalated Australia’s housing and homelessness situation into a national emergency”.

“Increasingly, we are also seeing a different group of people seek our help in homelessness services: people who are employed, but just cannot meet skyrocketing rents”.

We all know why this is happening. The AlboGreens and fake left cheerleaders at The Guardian have torn down Australia’s borders, triggering an unprecedented flood of immigration that no Australian infrastructure can cope with.

There is no supply-side solution coming to fix any of it within years or ever. It can’t be done.

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But the fake left won’t discuss the demand side owing to its proud credo:

Immigration – because there are many desperate to hate – must be treated with extreme care by politicians and journalists…The inherently racist parties will seek to use any discussion and any seeming evidence of the negative impact of migrants as fuel to burn their fires of hate.

And so hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Australians are thrown into homelessness, ruin and death while the fake left burnishes its moral credentials.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.