how is it almost entirely not immigrations fault if we've been below replacement fertility since 1978? who would we need to be building houses for if there wasn't any population growth? phantom people? on a long enough time frame in the absence of population growth supply would simply overwhelm...
this is fucking retarded lmao did you read anything we said at all
yimby supply side propaganda is bullshit
aus is already one of the biggest builders in the oecd and has one of highest construction : non construction worker ratios
yet completely fails to keep up with the endless demand...
demand for new housing in australia is almost entirely driven by immigration. australia has been below replacement fertility since 1978, if there had been no immigration since 1980 we would barely have needed to build absolutely anything. there'd be little need for a construction industry...
aus would be fuck all without its mining sector tbh
i reckon we'd be poorer than portugal
whole economy otherwise would be wiping ass holes of downs and fetal alcohol syndrome speds
i don't understand why people say this
immigration increases population size, which increases the volume of transactions which causes aggregate GDP (which is literally just a measure of the total quantity of final transactions within a particular economy within one year) to increase, but that...
muh negative gearing
muh capital gains tax concession
muh boomers
everyone who thinks that these are principally responsible for rise in real estate prices rather than ancillary factors that only have an operative effect due to the constant supply-demand disequilibrium created by the mass...
why do people in sydney give so much a shit about what high school they went to lol its the most dropkick psycho faggot loser behaviour there is
dont know anyone else outside of that city who cares as much about it as they do