Albo’s socialist wet dream has come to fruition. In the midst of a rising cost of living, the last thing Australians needed was a socialist re-shuffling of economic priorities. But Albo, the knight in shining armour, has silenced all critics by announcing $2 billion dollars into his social housing program. Australians are left with a bitter aftertaste and wonder, who is Albo really serving here?
What are social homes?
To put it bluntly, social housing is the end result of a nanny state in which people can live off the fat of the land for next to nothing. Obviously there are circumstances where there is a real need for social housing, but Albo’s $2 billion dollar project is an unprecedented overreach and mispening of Australian taxpayers money.
In a statement released last year, the Albanese government asserted:
Today the Albanese Government announces a new $2 billion social Housing Accelerator to deliver thousands of new social homes across Australia.
This investment will build more housing, for more Australians, in more parts of our nation.
Because this government knows a secure home will give more Australians the foundation for a better future.
The Social Housing Accelerator payment will be delivered to State and Territory Governments within the next two weeks. This will create thousands of homes for Australians on social housing waiting lists and will increase housing supply sooner, with all funding to be committed by states and territories within two years ending 30 June 2025.
What is the problem with social homes?
It incentivizes the bogan lifestyle. You need only visit suburbs like Mt Druitt in Western Sydney to experience the cacophony of boganess. The swearing, spitting, and larrikinism omitted from the Western Sydney suburb is palpable to the uninitiated. But when you begin to peel back the layers, you realize that beyond the arguments of generational trauma, the natural lottery and mere fate, the people in such areas that arouse trouble are agents of their own making. Albo’s social housing program and Centrelink (the great enabler) only incentivizes the bogan lifestyle.
There are people who are really struggling, who are poor and in dire need of social assistance and there are people who enjoy the demise of their own life and want to go to hell in a handbasket.
When the comedy series, Housos emerged, the inhabitants of the Mt Druitt area demanded the show be stopped as it prejudiced and stereotyped the locals of Mt Druitt.The series showed the locals of Mt. Druitt in a raw, rough, rugged and uncouth demeanor. But it was not far from reality. When you visit Mt. Druitt, it does not take long to see the real life Housos in action.
But Albo rewards bad behavior with more social housing.
Even worse, our cultural narrative about bogans is overly sympathetic to say the least. The second you mention that drug addiction, alcoholism and delinquency has roots in an individual’s own personal choice, you are met with the classic defense: ‘you don’t understand the trauma they have been through’
Be that as it may, there are many people who experience trauma and do not succumb to the temptations of the bogan lifestyle.
But Albo has a knack for finding a home with Bogans. Rather than cutting benefits for thousands of people who are capable of working, Albo incentivizes the Nanny state superstructure, and the future will be not only full of more social housing, but one in which the ‘bogan lifestyle’ is encouraged, celebrated and championed.
