Housing is unaffordable because government taxes and regulations are unaffordable.
The price of housing is continually rising and is beyond the ability of the vast majority of single income earners to pay; even for a house due for demolishing.
As Topher Field explains in the video above, the biggest cost of housing is the cost of government tax and regulations.
The unaffordability of housing is effectively prohibiting young men from providing material support for a woman to bear babies and raise children. The birth rate for each man and woman in Australia up until 2024 was 1.48 babies.
The Australian government (and anyone or anything else) effectively prohibiting young men and women from forming and raising families is in my opinion acting immorally.
The unaffordable cost of housing needs to be resolved as a matter of existential importance.
Topher’s original video, and others, can be viewed HERE.
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The cost of housing, and the consequent inability of young men to provide this for a wife and children, is one reason the average women in Australia now bears 1.48 babies. A population with this birth rate will eventually die out. Before dieing out, this population will experience a lack of younger people to provide material care for the increasingly incapacitated older population.
This is by most measurements a disaster.
The Australian government is covering the lack of natural population growth (and future tax payer base) by importing people. In 2024 the number of immigrants was 494,540, while the number of births was 292,398. In 2024 there were 10 immigrants for every 6 babies born.
The Australian government has effectively outsourced the production of the population and tax payer base to fathers and mothers in overseas, normally third world, countries. This is colloquially known as “bludging”, and in my opinion; immoral.
A man or woman content with having no family or descendants will easily achieve this result; for the benefit of a few, but for the loss of all.
David Landini.
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