Life in a Sardine Tin: The Australian Dream Now becomes the Australian Nightmare, By James Reed

Leith van Onselen comments upon the article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-27/nightingale-micro-apartments-marrickville-build-to-rent/103630652, which typical of the ABC, celebrates the joy of micro-apartments.The female occupational therapist is over the moon to move into a new city apartment. And it does not take long to explore it either: "All up, their studio is about 25 square metres: space for a bed and perhaps a small table and chairs, a kitchenette, and a bathroom.

To make up for the tight living quarters, there are two large communal kitchens, couches and chairs to relax and watch television with other residents, and an outdoor terrace." As noted by van Onselen, this is how the accommodation crisis will be "solved." By cramming people into sardine-tin modes of living:

"Record low vacancy rates, a cost-of-living crunch and demand for more flexible living options from digital nomads and Millennials are driving plans by developers and fund managers to build thousands of micro apartments in big cities across Australia…

The average apartment size would be around 25 square metres – less than half the size of a typical 55-square-metre serviced apartment and equivalent to modern student accommodation – but will include a kitchenette, toilet and bathroom…

"We see flex-living as one of the fastest growing sub-segments of the multifamily [or build-to-rent] sector as councils globally see the offering of smaller and more flexible accommodation solutions a way to take pressure off more people wanting to be in urban environments," said Sabine Schaffer, Pro-invest co-founder and Europe CEO.

"We are working with local government about how we can look at expedited planning pathways and planning approvals and waived developer charges to make these projects more viable," said NSW Housing Minister Rose Jackson.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/08/australian-dream-turns-micro-apartment-nightmare/

As van Onselen rightly observes, this is nothing more than the creation of high rise slums, produced by the government's mass immigration program.

"Sydney received 156,600 net overseas migrants in 2022-23, while 38,400 existing residents departed the city.

In the decade to December 2023, New South Wales' population grew by around 980,000 people, with net overseas migration accounting for 853,600, or 87% of this increase.

The majority of this net overseas migration arrived in Sydney, where the population has increased by around 1.5 million people this century, almost completely via net overseas migration.

Instead of putting a curb on migration, politicians, the media, and most economists continue to mislead the public into believing that Sydney's housing woes are a supply issue rather than an excessive immigration problem."

This is the death of the Australian dream of home ownership. It means that there will continue to be a radical birth crash, as who can have a family in those conditions? As I see it, it is all just part of the replacement plan that the globalists have their puppet politicians following.