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A semi-retired white goods retailer who lives in a 6 bedroom house with nobody but his stay-at-home second wife and the occasional daughter who is visiting from London, has today finally conceded that maybe the nation’s housing market is geared against young Australians.
“I don’t know how anyone thinks these kids are supposed to get ahead” says Bruce Bronson (74), an owner of 7 negatively-geared investment properties, three of which remain vacant as a land-banking exercise.
“What with all of these immigrants they let in each year”
Bruce does make a fairly decent point that the 554,000 temporary visa holders that have been let into Australia since the pandemic have absolutely saturated the room-sharing bunkbed rental market.
What he neglects to mention is these kinds of lower-deck style living quarters have always been dominated by the same foreign people who subsidise our education system by paying 300% more for an undergraduate degree at university while risking their lives in underpaid front line jobs every night.
But these are the type of immigrants he thinks are to blame. The brown ones who always appear exhausted.
What he’s obviously not talking about is the faceless ‘economic migrants’ that he depends on to buy his properties as a money laundering operation, whenever he feels like topping up the retirement fund, or buying another place.
“How does our government expect kids to buy a house when every second bloke delivering $35 dollar pad thais to my front door also needs a home?”
Bruce’s recent pivot to ‘immigrants have caused the housing crisis’ is a convenient new narrative that has been gleefully adopted by millions of post-war Australian wealth hoarders like him.
People who would be traditionally described as baby boomers.
The same demographic that have valiantly campaigned for our natural environment to be by the accelerated burning of fossil fuels due to their Sky News-generated fear of wind turbines – and has been directly catered to by both major political classes and the Australian media for the best part of the century.
This particular generation have been heavily criticised over the last thirty years for their inability to look past their own retirement, which many of them believe should have been the day they turned 55, until they turned 55 and realised golf wasn’t actually that fun.
Many now refuse to leave their high-paying jobs and free up the capitals by selling their unnecessarily large 6 bedder homes and fucking off to Port Macquarie or Hervey Bay.
Instead, they are staying put in the city, crowding our healthcare systems and pricing young families out of the housing market that they have actively manipulated to pay unsustainable dividends while trapping the younger generations into a life eternally renting from them.
But Bruce says all of these woes young people face could be resolved overnight, if we just closed our borders, like we did during that pandemic that did wonders for the global economy.
“It’s a discussion we need to have” he says, in reference to his plan to rid Australia of the same young foreigners who will be caring for him when his kids cart him off to a nursing home in ten years time.
MORE TO COME.
