We funded feeds while we starved the foundation of a decent life: housing, transit, and social supports.

This essay maps the misallocation—and proposes a rebuild: community land trusts and co‑ops, zoning reform, anchor‑institution procurement, and a dual‑education pipeline for the trades.

https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-misallocation-civilization

#HousingAffordability #PublicInfrastructure #CommunityWealth #UrbanPlanning
#AttentionEconomy
#Infrastructure
#SocialInfrastructure
#CommunityLandTrusts

Today, my membership cancellation has been processed by the NSW Branch of the #Labor Party (#NSWLabor). It no longer represents me, nor many thousands of others I’m sure, and has used up all the loyalty and trust I once had invested in it.

From now on my membership fees and any donation I might have made to the Party will be directed elsewhere (not a political party), to where I think will help #Australia get back on track to #SocialDemocracy where the benefits equally flow to all Australians and not just the #ChoosenFew. As for my vote, it will have to earn it back.

#Poverty is a political choice
#HousingAffordability is a political choice
#CivicLiberties are a political choice
#EquityDiversityInclusion are a political choice
#WealthDistribution is a political choice
#CostOfLiving is a political choice

There is no getting away from #politics nor our civic duty to make sound political choices for all of us living, on this stollen land, on the great #SouthernLand.

#Antifa #TaxTheRich #AusPol

They're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My #rent went up $5/week last year; were we still in #Brisbane, we'd be paying exactly twice what we were five years ago.

We don't have a #HousingAffordability problem in #Australia—we have a politician problem. There's simply no political will at state or federal levels to rein landlords in.

#poverty #housing #CostOfLiving #meeja https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/116242703120447855

Senate Housing Affordability Bill Clears the Senate but Faces a Harder Test

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/senate-housing-affordability-bill/

The Senate passed its first major housing bill since the subprime mortgage crisis. Can it actually become law?

A wide-ranging bipartisan bill designed to improve housing affordability easily passed the Senate on Thursday, despite concer…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #bipartisanbill #bipartisanpolicycenter #ElizabethWarren #housingaffordability #housingshortage #industrygroups #PresidentTrump #Senate #statehousingfinance #TimScott #UnitedStates #Us #USA #WhiteHouse
https://www.newsbeep.com/431831/

Jeff Bezos looked at skyrocketing housing prices and thought: “more landlords!”.

His "arrived.com" turns the housing crisis into a game of Monopoly for the rich and wannabe landlords. Expanding landlordism to the masses and inflating housing prices even more.

Housing shouldn’t be a profit machine.

#capitalism #wealth #housing #housingAffordability #poverty #rent #bezos #amazon

Australian Politics and Security Concerns Highlighted

South Australia Labor pledges a $100,000 stamp duty waiver for empty nesters before the March 21 election. Find out how this affects older homeowners.

#SouthAustralia, #HousingAffordability, #Election2024, #StampDuty, #EmptyNesters

https://newsletter.tf/sa-labor-100k-stamp-duty-waiver-empty-nesters/

South Australia Labor is offering a $100,000 stamp duty waiver for empty nesters. This is a new policy before the upcoming election.

#SouthAustralia, #HousingAffordability, #Election2024, #StampDuty, #EmptyNesters

https://newsletter.tf/sa-labor-100k-stamp-duty-waiver-empty-nesters/

Finally some sense and nuance on this.

Housing is not a widget, and simplistic treatment of housing as if its price is simply one of "obvious Econ 101: supply and demand 🤓" is (I expect deliberately) misinformation being picked up in the public discourse and even public policy.

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2026/01/19/38855/

#Housing #HousingAffordability #AffordableHousing