Qld’s scrapped land tax carnage: ‘Every renter should be fuming’ - realestate.com.au
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New research has found that Queensland’s failed land tax reform caused “serious, long-term damage to the state’s stock of rental properties”. Here’s why.

A survey of over 3700 property investors by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) recently revealed that more than 80 per cent were considering bailing on the Sunshine State due to recent and proposed tenancy law changes.

When asked for their primary reason for considering selling, many pointed to ongoing rental reforms, bad tenants, increasing holding costs and the stigma that all landlords were “greedy, wealthy people” as among some of their key gripes.

OPs note: Did QLD really just figure out the solution to the housing crisis? lol

  • @Olgratin_MagmatoeEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s unreasonable for us too see some civil unrest soon because of this sort of thing.

    Yup. Star Trek’s prediction of large scale homeless uprisings is starting to feel less and less like fiction each day.

    • @MercuryUprisingOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I honestly don’t see any other way it can go. It’s not like the wealthy have a historical precedent of being about fairness and equity.

      • @Olgratin_MagmatoeEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I can see where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is guaranteed. IIRC, revolutions typically only ever happen when:

        1 - A significant portion of the population is hungry

        2 - A sense of class consciousness is formed

        As long as juuuust enough people are fed and housed, things will have a level of stability, even if it means they spend almost all of their money of basic necessities. As long as people are surviving, even if only barely, they’re less likely to revolt and force change. Why would you join a protest if you don’t have any form of PTO, you have maybe a weeks worth of savings, and you’ll be fired for not showing up to work? The current system is intentionally designed to pull everything it can out of you, and if it pulls too much and breaks you it doesn’t matter, there is always another worker to exploit. And as for two, I think that the rich will continue to fund culture war bullshit indefinitely, so no such teamwork from the working class can be formed.

        I agree with you that there is a time limit to how long the system can keep on going, and I think that limit is climate change. We’re already about to pass the 1.5 degree c tipping point, and after that it’s going to get a lot harder for civilization to continue to exist.