(Preview) Honest Government Ad | The Rental Crisis

That is funny but true. I hope it wakes people up to the causes of the housing crisis in Australia

Holiday homes and AirBnB are I suggest linked to tax benefits and self managed super annuation bullshit. Great to call out crap legal protection to tenants, that deserves national policy...

Agree with Lynne. The other driver not covered is holiday homes and AirBnB which has taken huge amounts of houses off the market

Love it from Korea :) We're having the same problem here as well.

Brilliant and right on topic. Big policy issue (for the Greens) in both the Federal and recent Victorian state elections. Where I live in coastal regional Victoria there is a huge rental crisis driven by the 60% unoccupancy rates from holiday/investment/airbnb. Streets full of empty houses.

good use of the word aspirational; the lack of social housing is the biggest issue in the rental market and good to see that it got a mention though the fact that state and territory govt. have reduced their social housing didn't really get highlighted. There needs to be a big injection in social housing and sadly atm it's difficult to build anything given the materials supply problems. all said great work crew :)

Awesome!

Love it!

Sad to say same story here in Ireland. My family are one of the lucky ones with Social Housing and it truly makes such a change in your life and what you can do. Spot on, accurate and bleakly hilarious as always.

Great work, sure to stir up some feeling given what a shit show housing is for many these days. Damning really in a country of such scale and wealth, probably costs us more in poverty, distress, and subsequent physical and mental health problems than just providing more quality housing

Also, reminds me of this classic Mel Brooks moment: https://youtu.be/MqkT4B-9MGk

As an American, this is both news to me and quite familiar. Don't forget all the homes and apartments kept vacant to use as vacation rentals.

Houses being a 'market' in the first place is pretty ick, all told, and I welcome the idea of dismantling 'investment properties' and their ilk. Renters should get better protection laws too, so they can't get booted at-will, forced to take on rent increases every few months due to interest hikes, the ability to customise the house internally, no 3-month visits from the rental agency to make sure you're keeping the place clean and unmodified, etc.

Sounds great 👍 I'll miss the regular calculator but though, could use a "all these policies to help you add up too... Tap tap tap... Fuck all 😄

All also true in the USA; plus we have been seeing a HUGE influx of foreign money and hedge funds turning homes into rentals, both long-term with the problems you point out, AND short-term, AirBNB type properties. A slight advantage the USA has are many fixed-rate mortgages. Sounds like Australia and New Zealand are mainly variable-rate mortgages that will force current homeowners into foreclosure and add them to the rental demand.

Spot on as always. It's a completely psychopathic idea to make profit on living essentials. "Investment" properties are an obscene idea. Empty houses, insane prices and mass homelessness. What's that song? Hang the landlord?

Well done and well said Giordano. Another cracker!

Thanks ladies for telling it just like it is. Same shitshow in the US Banana Republic except they have a plan for Marshall Law at some point ☝️ in the near future. Just like China. Stay well keep up the good fight.

Just when the doom scrolling has worn you out, JM comes up with another great (and cheerfully profane) ad to bring back your energy!

The Money.

Hits hard.

Just brilliant and right on

Ooooh, my… I see that housing shitfuckery is not isolated to these Feudal States of America: you're facing the same laissez-faire capitalistic mammon-loving Down Under. We really, truly need to finally implement FDR's 2nd Bill of Economic Rights worldwide, one of which is "The right of every family to a decent home."

Ah this is cutting into the bone. Similar dynamic here in the UK. Seems like corrupt politicians the world over have commodified housing leading to this tsunami of greed washing away people's hard fought living standards and security. Total shitbags.