How Would You Solve Our Housing Crisis?
- MagnaChartaParty
- Apr 21
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 25

If I was given that task, I’d fund it with taxing top end & all the registered, so-called charities.

I say “so-called charities” as when I was homeless with my children living from our car in Adelaide (from ANZAC Day 2006 to early April 2008) a bloke from a well known charity in a marked vehicle used to park near us and sit watching us for hours on end. There'd be no others in the place we were & he met no other. He just sat in his car, too far to yell at him, but close enough to feel he was a pervert. I’m certain he was masturbating sitting in his marked charity vehicle watched us.
Once when we parked near some charity bins in Morphett Vale, cooking our dinner on a portable stove astride a small wood table on a flat concrete slab, (because it was drizzling with rain) near the overflowing bins. Some bloke in a marked charity vehicle rushed up, parked next to the charity bins, accused me of stealing from the bins and going through the dumped junk. We hadn't. He tried to stuff it all in, but when there was no more room he put it in the marked charity vehicle, calling the stuff “ours” as in his & the property of the charity.
Despite my asking, we'd not had any assistance from that so-called charity when we were homeless, but they manage to fund TV commercials seeking donations and run a fleet of marked vehicles, tax-free.
Like I said, if I was given the task to solve our housing crisis, I’d fund it with taxing top end & all the registered, so-called charities.
How I’d Solve Our Housing Crisis:
I’d make private rentals illegal to all but direct family.
I’d make all residential rentals the responsibility of the Federal Government, with rental costs limited to 20% of the renter’s income.
I’d also put a permanent ban on increasing building costs that consume any extra grants for home buyers on mid to low incomes
Think about it. Private rentals exist to make renters pay off the home loans for the landlords.
If Government were the only ones as landlords there would be no overpriced rental market & the rentals would virtually self fund.
They’d be a building boom with a steady flow of new builds, conversions & renovations. Win-win.
Janette GF
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