You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Why Chloe? She isn't a Minister, or even an MP with any power beyond a voice. She is repeatedly quoted as saying everyone has a human right to a safe home, particularly in response to the Ministers who do have power who seem intent on withdrawing funding from community housing providers, on ensuring challenging tenants have no security of tenancy, and on rewarding private landlords with taxation benefits that do nothing to make more housing available or reducing rents.

The providers, including the state are now cancelling housing development plans, projects on the drawing boards are being shelved. Which is great for private landlords, demand will increase and the market will support rent increases, and the dropping of standards. Meanwhile we will open the gates to more immigrants, many with the means to inflate the housing market further.

We are going backwards. Back to the regime that created the housing problem in the first place. The one that allows some to benefit from inflated paper property values, while even more live in their cars, or in parks or garages, or boarding houses, or raise their children in motel units within gang run communities.

The media are powerless unless the government listens. It has no intention of listening. Gang members don't vote, neither do mums run ragged by their kids. Most MPs haven't the guts to be honest, and would rather turn a blind eye to anything that doesn't serve their career interests.

The system is broken Jan, and there is very little you, or I, or Chloe can do about it. And fixing it is something that will take years, even if they find the will to get behind such a reversal of political direction. Meanwhile people are suffering serious harm, especially children. For all the advances in science and technology, we are still fighting the same battles, seeing the same costs paid by those who deserve better.

But hey, we have more billionaires every year. So that's something I guess...