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Migrants scapegoated as cause of Australia’s housing crisis a ‘disturbing’ trend, advocates say
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
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Who is scapegoating migrants?
Foreign ownership of property by people who will never even see the building they own is not the same as a migrant coming here to live?
Are they trying to conflate being critical of rich cunts buying up properties and sitting on them with actual humans coming here to live?
Edit: After a quick search, this seems to be the new thing as of a month ago when articles mentioning migrants and housing started increasing. Wonder who’s pushing this…
Sorry mate, people have been moaning about migrants and airbnb since forever?
It's a complex problem with multiple drivers, but no motivation from the populace to solve any of them.
Migrants for housing? Nah. Shit people have been quiet about migrants for a long time now, this isn’t like the boat overboard days.
Airbnb is completely valid to moan about and has nothing to do with migrants.