Don’t blame migrants for the housing crisis, blame the millionaires

Although fascist immigrant immigrants, the landlords and politicians who stacked the wealth that fueled the housing crisis, Dr Martin Hirst.

Since the embarrassing and shocking racist “anti -immigration” walks On Sunday, August 31st, some mainstream journalists ultimately National Socialist Network In fact, it can pose a threat to the prime minister Albanian‘ST-SOCIAL “SOCIAL APRIL” RETORIC.

Buffets exposed and even condemned Thomas SewellThe penalty gang was liberal and the so -called “progressive” media. However, scraping a little deeper and the racist messaging of March for Australia for Australia ön front and center.

Most of the time, racism is hidden behind the real problem of the lack of “concerns” of ordinary families who face the costs of life costs or the lack of affordable houses for people to survive. The problem is always hidden in news items and comments that there are too many immigrants.

These sloppy, simple and wrong arguments, Causes of homelessness And the reasons for the shortage of housing supply.

The most urgent reason is the financial stress on individuals and families coming from housing, and high rents and low income. More than half of the people who reach homeless services do this because of financial problems. Seventy percent of low -income operating households spend more than 43% of their income on rent or mortgage payments.

Special rental market is a nightmare for tenants. The tenants are faced with Skyrockacting rents and unwarranted evacuation is very common. Hosts are one of the most important reasons for homelessness and housing crisis.

The second highest reason for homelessness is family and domestic violence. This affects women and children, especially and maintains international poverty cycles.

Health and disability problems and substance addiction are also in the first ten reasons for homelessness. Young people face real problems if they are forced to force the family home or if the family is experiencing a housing crisis. It is the immigration that is not in the first ten reasons for homelessness.

And you know that when it is claimed that anti -immigrant rhetorics are a response to the housing crisis, immigration first ten reasons Housing scarcity.

The most important problem is the lack of supply: Australia does not build enough houses for people. However, this is also linked to affordable prices.

According to the National Housing Supply and Purchase Council (Nhsac), a mortgage service can consume half of a family’s income and rent costs are about one -third of the median household income. The population concentration in large city centers gives slow approval for new buildings and cost pressures in the housing sector and construction sector.

Low or stagnant wage growth is also a factor. Housing prices have left behind the increase in income by applying pressure to both the landlords and tenants.

It is not immigrants who are the cause of residential famine. In addition to the factors listed above, we should add property speculation. Reliable estimates based on counting records show that approximately 10% of the existing housing stock is empty. One million property nationwide.

In Melbourne, empty houses are equivalent to new 2.5 -year -old structures. This empty housing stock Easily provide a home For everyone on the housing waiting list.

Land banking and current tax and planning plans – such as negative gear – weakens the equivalent and restricts housing supply. Speculation and land banking are rewarded by government policy.

For this reason, it is important to be armed with arguments to push back anti -immigrant racists. First of all, the Nazis between them do not care about housing problems or the cost of living.

As a comrade pointed out to me, there was no protest between Red Ensigns and Nazi Regalia about the housing crisis. Violence against racist divine and color people was not a protest about the cost of life. It was only racism and racism towards the exclusionary idea of a white Australia.

It was a racist march against black, brown and Asian migration, called Mart March for Australia ”. In this sense, starting from the first nation people of this country, it is compatible with the history of long white racism against everyone.

This, the last inferior action of the Nazis, has not been provoked and Violent attack on camp sovereignty King’s area on the edge of Melbourne CBD.

NSN members entering the camp, destroying the property and severe strokes of severe strokes on the chest images of hospitalization was rightly condemned by everyone. If you claim to worry about the impact of migration on ordinary people, why are you attacking a domestic camp on holy land?

Housing crisis is not a demographic problem, but a policy failure. The deliberate interruptions in the housing and market deregulation fed by neoliberal ideology are real problems. Keça immigrants are the tactics of deflecting responsibility from capitalists and governments who make a profit from treating houses as a commodity, not a human right. Capitalism produces famine to ensure profitability and shift the crime to migration.

Therefore, the mainstream news, which is the capitalist propaganda tool, will claim that the emergence of the Nazis is “bad, but the legitimate concerns of the protesters should be discussed. In a shameful way, even Anthony Albanian, once advancing, made this racist argument, like many other members of his government.

Shocking that the leading figures in the Labor Party throw such racist garbage. But it’s not really shocking. Rather than being the cause of the problems, immigrant communities-especially the victims of refugees-conquest and cost of life. Immigrants, especially newly, usually work in low -paid and precarious work.

However, this is a deliberate strategy of the bosses, not the insidious immigrants who steal “Aussie”. Immigrants make a disproportionate contribution to economic and social life in Australia. Many basic work is filled by immigrants.

On the other hand, restricting migration may be a reason for labor shortage and can slow the economy. Immigrant and refugee communities are often forced to bad quality houses because of their insecure employment.

Instead of blaming them, Albanians should encourage the unity movement to fight for protection and payment increases for immigrants and all workers.

For the Australian hatefests of the “good” participants in the march, “good” participants should also be challenged by the legitimate concerns of the participants and themselves are not hardened.

Racism is a means of division. The capitalist press pushes the narrative that it is not a friend of the working class and that migration is the main reason for the problem as a way to break the solidarity of workers. It is a united and militant working class solution for all workers who can fight for better wages and conditions.

We can also argue that there are also politicians who are the hosts, who are real -class enemies. Federal, more than half of all MPs and senators have two or more property. Seventy three or more and 31 have four or more; And this is in all big parties. They are the same politicians who allow the legal and policy framework to benefit the property speculators.

The largest institutional speculators holding large land areas in the external suburbs of the major cities of Australia are also within the framework. These capitalist land stackants control $ 81 billion in the growth belts of the city centers.

According to the expert analysis, this is equivalent to a pool of 200,000 housing areas and the new housing supply of 13 years. Speculators hang out on the land parcels and slowly release them to protect high prices.

The main enemy always sits at home or in this case, in the mansions and in the penthouse apartments, and told us that an immigrant will steal from us. This is just a distraction of attention; Speculators who blind us.

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Dr Martin Hirst is a journalist, writer and academic. You can follow him on Twitter @ethicalmartini.

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