#housing

dashboardvogon@diasp.org

Whitewashing the #resistance to work, internalised #capitalism and class warfare. They finish the article with a person who lives at home and doesn't care that they'll work their whole lives and never own a home.

It's really annoying that the media keeps trotting out people who don't care about housing #insecurity, while at the same time running articles on how damaging it is to not have secure #housing. Food and shelter are the most basic human needs and #Australia is failing to meet them.

#australia #neoliberal-parasites

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-15/generation-z-millennials-quitting-jobs-financial-struggles/101304758

dashboardvogon@diasp.org

Singapore solved their #housing problem with a massive #social-housing program. Nordic countries are doing something similar. Meanwhile, in #Australia, we march to the tune of #US #imperialism and allow people to sleep in the streets rather than provide basic human needs. One exception I take with this article is the reference to #working people being #homeless. Yes it's worse when #employed #labour can't even put a roof over their heads but it's also a hint at the undeserving #poor. This has permeated #Australian media and culture ever since John Howard stupidly followed the lead of trickle down. We know it doesn't. It was never going to. Now entire generations of people will not own their own homes unless we regulate this #vulture-capitalism. And even poor people deserve housing.

(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-29/census-finds-1-million-empty-houses-amid-affordability-crisis/101190794)

olladij@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

Some Chinese property developers are going to extreme lengths to attract buyers.
From accepting grain or garlic as part payment, to offering live pigs as an incentive to buyers, the unusual sales tactics underline the dire state of China's vast #realestate industry. A collapse in sales has accelerated since developer #Evergrande defaulted on its debt last year as the #economy has slowed.
Central #China Management — a sister company of Central China Real Estate, the largest developer in the central province of #Henan — said in a recent advertisement that it will accept down payments of wheat for houses in #Minquan county.
The ad was posted on the company's official WeChat account this week. Buyers can use the grain to offset as much as 160,000 yuan (nearly $24,000) of their down payment. The new homes the company is offering sell for between $100,000 and $124,000, according to Leju Holdings, a real estate services provider.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/22/economy/china-property-developers-wheat-garlic-hogs-intl-hnk/index.html #housing #debt #crisis

olladij@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

For three weeks, more than 300 #refugees from #Mariupol have been living in the town of Vrangel in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky Krai. During Russia’s weeks-long siege of Mariupol, which is now under #occupation, many residents were unable to safely escape to territory controlled by #Kyiv. Instead, some civilians seeking evacuation were forcibly deported to the Russian city of #Taganrog. Upon arriving at the local train station, these refugees were talked into going to the country’s Far East, where they were promised free #housing, reduced mortgage rates, relocation support, and jobs. As a result, some 300 refugees from #Ukraine ended up in a small town on the shores of the Nakhodka Bay. In interviews with Meduza, refugees living in #Vrangel recounted what has happened to them since arriving in #Russia.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/19/i-don-t-know-what-to-do #war #migration #work

buzzkill@diaspora.schoenf.de

Coercive Control is a Pattern of Coercive Behaviors used to Gain or Maintain Power and Control of One Person over Another.

Coercive control is a strategic form of ongoing oppression and terrorism used to instill fear.

It is illegal in some countries.

"Coercive control creates invisible chains and a sense of fear that pervades all elements of a victim’s life. It works to limit their human rights by depriving them of their liberty and reducing their ability for action. Experts like Evan Stark liken coercive control to being taken hostage. As he says: “the victim becomes captive in an unreal world created by the abuser, entrapped in a world of confusion, contradiction and fear.”

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