NSW government stuffs migrants into Western Sydney high-rise ghettos

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Local governments across Western Sydney have traditionally been the dumping ground for migrants.

The Western Sydney ghetto is designed to provide cheap migrant labour to the Eastern suburb elites who enjoy rentier profits from over-priced ghetto apartments and postage stamp houses, inflated land banks, as well as mortgages and retail by volume.

It is essentially a form of economic apartheid that will only get worse under a new state government plan to stuff more migrants into high-rise ghettos mostly in Sydney’s west:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.