This post is talking exclusively about cities, I'm not sure why this argument about rural areas comes up so often when it's not relevant.
8,000 more smoking deaths, 13,000 more children in poverty, massive cuts to public services looming.
Remember this, every terrible thing this government is doing is all to smash and grab enormous amounts of public money, that could be spent on services for everyone, and give it to landlords.
Nothing but sheer economic vandalism and greed from this government.
The reddit api blocking 3rd party apps pushed a whole bunch of people onto lemmy, and lemmy is very big on FOSS and Linux so it's been a gateway of sorts
I feel this will just breed resentmint
I don't think it's surprising, but good research to have backing this up nonetheless. Pretty much every problem in this country can be traced back to the lack of affordable and stable housing. It makes complete sense to me that a state house with security of tenure comes out better than a private rental you know you have for a year at most (and likely less if no cause evictions come back).
Incidentally, the authors of this study have done a lot of research into housing quality too. They found that providing insulation grants for our notoriously cold and damp houses generated savings many times the cost due to less pressure on the health system and fewer sick days from school and work.
Is this guy not public domain yet, I thought that was coming up. Maybe next year? John Oliver did a whole bit on it
All this 'we can't afford it' happened when we went from 3 weeks to 4 weeks annual leave 20 odd years ago.
And when sick leave came in.
And when the weekend came in.
Every improvement to workers' rights gets met with the same outcry. We'd still be in workhouses if we listened to it.
What really stands out with these incidents is that all the handwringing against the protests themselves and how they should be 'doing it the right way' is total bullshit.
Turns out direct action (up to and including violence) is justified... If you're delayed getting somewhere in your car by 15 mins. However, nonviolent direct action about our own government dithering on the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced is too much.
So why do they want people's iris scans? Like they say it's an easy way to verify someone signing up is a real person but is there some other nefarious reason I'm missing here?
I think the worst part of it is that its not actually hopeless, at least not in theory. It's just that we, or more accurately the people with actual power, refuse to act because it would mean slightly less profit.
In effect more wealth transfer from renters to the pockets of landlords, this time direct from their retirement or first house deposit savings. It's all national are here to do.
Not mentioned in this article - our corrupt, self interested government abruptly cancelling a bunch of much needed infrastructure projects when they came into government, leaving whole sectors in limbo and their workforces leaving for Australia.