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Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet?He responds that he has a small, single-income family and gives up about $50,000 from his annual salary to fund a free meal program in his Brisbane electorate. 'Because of that, giving up that money, and being on a single income and in an inner city electorate with a very, very high median house price, it is actually sort of difficult at the moment to buy a house there,' the Greens housing and homelessness spokesperson says.

Well, thank you Max.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

I think all the federal Greens MPs do free community meals now. If you’re in Max’s electorate check out the Events page: https://www.maxchandlermather.com/events

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

The guy's buying avocado toast for the whole suburb!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if his landlord ever considered not renewing his lease due to his political stance vis-a-vis landlords.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

No, because, and I say this as a landlord myself, landlords care about paying the mortgage more than the principle of being allowed to own property to rent. Most landlords can’t afford for it not to be rented out. Turning down a good tenant due to their political beliefs would be foolish. And mean.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Lemmy is very well aware that tenants pay the mortgage for landlords.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Subsidised by tax breaks, no less. Yes, it's a bad system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I assumed it would also be illegal discrimination, but I have no evidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Rental vacancy rate has never been lower. Landlords have zero problems finding renters if the price is not stupid. Yet. Which it will become as investments dry up and continue forcing prices higher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Admitting to being a landlord on Lemmy? Brave. Very brave.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No shit, maybe you should help houses get built rather than work with the coalition then?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/greens-demand-additional-housing-spend/104608352

Labor's Help to Buy shared equity scheme, and new tax measures to encourage more build-to-rent properties, are both stuck in the Senate, opposed by both the Greens and the Coalition.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you miss the news? The Greens have decided to allow those bills to pass.

But it's Labor who should be blamed for the long delay. Their steadfast refusal to come to the negotiating table for months and insistence that it must be "their way or the highway" is very reminiscent of the Rudd years, when a Labor PM allowed his personal ego to get in the way of effective policy.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Did you miss the news? The Greens have decided to allow those bills to pass.

They can go fuck themselves to be honest, I cannot believe in a housing crisis the greens are the ones holding up housing of all people...

For another 204-bed project in the affluent inner Brisbane suburb of Paddington, Bates said a four- to five-storey building was “unacceptable” as it would “dominate the street and public spaces, damaging views”.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/is-it-beautiful-greens-push-nimby-guides-in-battleground-seats-20240917-p5kb7u.html

To turn into inner city NIMBY's, I cannot believe it, seems neither can a few other people

I'm more interested in how they perform at the next election rather than labor or liberal, we know one of those two will get in (could be either way, inflation appears to be a standing government killer) but the greens is more interesting, will left wing progressives who love Gaza really have that big of an influence and gain them seats or will they finally become as relevant as one nation? I can't wait to find out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They can go fuck themselves to be honest, I cannot believe in a housing crisis the greens are the ones holding up housing of all people...

I worry that a lot of people will feel the same.

Do you think if the greens just waved through the haff as-is, we would have gotten $2B extra for public housing? This funding only came after the Greens blocked the haff with extra funding a demand (though I know Labor take all the credit for it).

This is how independents and minor parties work, they can't pass their own bills so they have to negotiate by holding government bills up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This funding only came after the Greens blocked the haff with extra funding a demand (though I know Labor take all the credit for it).

No shit, I’m blocking the road so you’ll have to go around me doesn’t quite sell we’re in favour of building does it? nor when you become inner city nimbys fussing over every minor detail and potentially could be in order to block building

“And our government is not going to wait around while members of the Greens political party call for more housing in the media while opposing it in their electorates and voting against it in the parliament,”

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pm-offers-2b-for-new-homes-ups-pressure-on-greens-on-housing-crisis-20230616-p5dh9d.html

The Greens had been particularly savage about Build to Rent, which they insisted was pro-developer, would would drive gentrification, and would push rents up to benefit “corporate landlords” (if landlords are the villains of the Greens worldview, corporate landlords as boss-level baddies). Nonetheless, the Greens say they will now “wave through” such terrible legislation.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/26/greens-declare-victory-labor-housing/

vote for the greens is a vote for the liberals

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“And our government is not going to wait around while members of the Greens political party call for more housing in the media while opposing it in their electorates and voting against it in the parliament,”

I already said Labor would like credit for the $2B.

Nonetheless, the Greens say they will now “wave through” such terrible legislation.

So on one hand the Greens should get out of the way and pass Labor's policies on housing, but also they shouldn't pass this because it's not good enough. I recall the help to buy scheme at least was assessed by the Australia Institute to make literally no difference because of the scale.

vote for the greens is a vote for the liberals

Ok champ.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, Adam Bandt might have pushed the whole charade a bit too far, though, when he declared he would “take the fight to the next election, where we’ll keep Peter Dutton out and then push Labor to act on unlimited rent rises and tax handouts to wealthy property investors”.

Keep Peter Dutton out? The Greens? Consider the seats the Bandt has explicitly said the Greens will target at the next election: Sydney, Macnamara, Wills, Cooper, Richmond. All Labor seats. The Greens will keep Dutton out by… taking seats off Labor. Makes sense. The entire Greens project is to take seats off Labor, understandably. The extent to which a hard-left party cannibalises the vote of a notionally left party, however, matters little to the electability of a right-wing party, beyond the extent to which it makes it easier for the right-wing party to become the largest grouping in Parliament and thus best-placed to form government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If Labor wanted the support of left-wing voters, maybe they should stop pushing centrist, even right-wing, policies. Consequences, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If the greens wanted the support of left-wing voters, maybe they should stop pushing centrist, even right-wing, policies. Consequences, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No, you are. Checkmate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Keep Peter Dutton out? The Greens? Consider the seats the Bandt has explicitly said the Greens will target at the next election: Sydney, Macnamara, Wills, Cooper, Richmond. All Labor seats.

This is true.

I wouldn't say they're cannibalizing the nationally left party though, Labor is centre left at best and we don't have a purely 2 party system like the US so a left wing party could easily run in coalition. Otherwise you could also make the case that the nats cannibalise the libs.

which it makes it easier for the right-wing party to become the largest grouping in Parliament and thus best-placed to form government

If neither major party has the numbers to form majority government next election then they will deal with a minor/independent to form government, the Green's obtaining more seats means if Labor is serious about forming government they would have to deal with them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

will left wing progressives who love Gaza really have that big of an influence

Labor have dropped the ball on a few of their assumed voter bases, people concerned about Gaza/Lebanon/etc. is one and another sizable group will be unionists. The dodgy CFMEU administration has taken many Labor voters in my union by surprise, and in at least some of their rallies the speakers have called for voting for further-left parties, suggesting the Greens as an example.

Looking at NSW and Victoria council election results, I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two, I doubt there will be drastic gains or losses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Looking at NSW and Victoria council election results, I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two, I doubt there will be drastic gains or losses.

Gain votes? A seat or two?

In turn, the Greens say they have adopted a new spirit of "good-faith negotiations" with the government just weeks after suffering electoral setbacks in Queensland, the ACT, and in some local government battles. They fear those losses were because voters regarded the party as playing an obstructionist or "wrecking" role rather than achieving goals.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/bandt-formal-power-sharing-deal-in-case-of-minority-government/104680818

I wish we had a remind me in 6 months