• Sarah@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I wonder if there will be a riot/strike anyway?

    I mean how long before people refuse to work just to pay someone else’s mortgage?

    • TheHolm@aussie.zone
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      8 hours ago

      may be they should pay their own mortgage? It is should be cheaper than rent if you assume that landlord is not contributing.

      • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        You understand that buying a house requires good credit and a sizeable deposit? Both of which are things that many Australians are struggling to earn with the increase in rent and cost of basic needs.

        If it were easy to “pay their own mortgage”, don’t you think more people would be doing that?

        Even the people with deposits and pre-approved loans are struggling to find homes when well established slum-lords can outbid them by 100k on even the saddest 1x1.