The Homeless Crisis at the Coalface By James Reed
It is cruel that our elites have pushed a massive immigration program at the time when people are struggling to find a home. It really is dispossession and replacement, however you look at it.
“Eliza Phillips* has laid bare the emotional toll of having applied for more than 300 homes in the past two months.
Since finding out her lease would not be renewed in June, the 34-year-old disability pensioner has faced a nightmare of rent bidding, sleeping in her car, and is now in psychiatric care.
Finding shelter in South Australia during the current housing crisis was nothing short of “impossible”, she told 7NEWS.com.au.
Phillips ordeal began when she was told that her lease on her home was not going to be renewed due to the landlord’s family members moving in instead.
She spent weeks going to open inspections and applying for properties, only to be told by real estate agents that her only hope lay in bidding against the weekly rent being offered by other prospective tenants.
In one call, she was asked to offer another $150 more than the advertised price for a one-bedroom property. That was because another prospective tenant had already offered $100 more.
Phillips is on a disability pension after breaking her neck some time ago.
“I can’t,” she told the agent. “That would take up my entire pension.”
In July, she became homeless.
“What am I meant to do,” Phillips asked. “We don’t live in a Third World country, but it feels that way.”
No, we are worse than most Third World countries who do not give away their heritage, as Australia has done, for a few dollars more.
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