Ice-cold take: a tenant who can afford Bulimba’s median $1225/week house rent isn’t in #housing distress, let alone one who can afford the median $2.3 million purchase price.

How about building dwellings for people genuinely priced out of adequate housing? Why not actually address #WealthInequality, rather than merely shift the blame for decades of poor policy?

Re: https://c.im/@ABC/116701660570740302 #auspol #qldpol #brisbane #HousingCrisis #HousingAffordability

American Wealth, Sliced Up

https://kottke.org/26/05/american-wealth-sliced-up

#HackerNews #AmericanWealth #WealthInequality #EconomicDisparity #FinancialLiteracy #Kottke

The US is going to mint a few hundred more billionaires this month with the tech IPO's and possibly a trillionaire.

But my 80 year-old mom can't drive for DoorDash anymore because of the Iran War.

I don't understand how anyone, save those few thousand billionaires, are honestly patriotic here in the US.

I just don't fucking get it.

#USPol #SpaceX #Investing #IPO #WealthInequality #Poverty

Apparently my mom's social security direct deposit is half what it should be this month.

In case you were feeling patriotic, just remember this goddamn country is apparently robbing elderly people too.

#Poverty #Trump #WealthInequality #SocialSecurity