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Starting to see quite a few posts on social media regarding 100k migrants increasing rents and property by 1%. This claim was in the AFR.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/no-good-options-when-surging-migration-and-a-housing-crisis-collide-20231129-p5enrm

While an upswing was inevitable, Coates says the size of the surge has surprised the government and experts.

“Whenever the pace of migration is this quick, and whenever the housing market is this tight, it’s always going to generate some community concern. Migrants obviously need somewhere to live, and they don’t rock up in Australia with a house strapped to their back.

“So, by definition, they’re adding to pressures on the housing market. Our rough rule of thumb is that every 100,000 additional migrants above the long-term average adds about 1 per cent to rents and house prices across Australia.”

Of course, both major political are ill equipped and refuse to deal with the situation. Discussing the size is off limits for the Labor review, and as evidence by their performance in their last term of government, the Libs are all talk and no action.

Labor appears unsure how to handle the politics of the situation. It correctly identifies the massive upswing as a once-off event, resulting from the reopening of Australia’s international border following the pandemic. But the government has little appetite to publicly espouse the broader benefits of Australia’s skilled migration system.

It explicitly excluded any discussion of the size of Australia’s foreign worker intake from the terms of reference of Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil’s review into the migration system. The response to that review, which was ready in October, has been delayed for a couple of months as the government has second thoughts about deliberately putting migration in the headlines. It is expected before Christmas.

The Coalition is already on the attack, with opposition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume describing migration as “out of control”.

“There is a fundamental problem because, of course, those huge numbers of migrants put immense demand on our already congested suburbs, on our already overworked infrastructure,” she says. “And unless there is infrastructure that has been co-ordinated to keep up with that level of inflation, it actually becomes a drag on productivity.”

Still, it was the Coalition government that put the current migration settings in place and, so far, hasn’t called for any explicit changes.

It begs the question if we will we see a swing to the right from young voters like in the recent Dutch elections.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/younger-voters-far-right-europe

Many young people are not xenophobic but their lives are precarious, say experts, amid crises in housing and healthcare

Lunching on a tuna sandwich in the central market of Volendam, a picturesque fishing port north of Amsterdam, Gerald, 24, was lucid about his choice in last week’s Dutch election.

“I voted for Wilders, and many of my friends did too,” he said. “I don’t want to live with my parents for ever. I want my own home, and to be able to provide for my family later on. Wilders wants to figure out the housing crisis, and make our healthcare better. Those are the most important topics for me.”

If everyone who voted in the election had been aged under 35, Geert Wilders, the far-right populist whose Party for Freedom (PVV) shocked Europe by winning the most parliamentary seats, would have won even more.