10B Bartlett street, Riccarton, Christchurch City #shitrentals

This was a fkn blast to film 🥰

This is a pretty representative figure of Australia’s population - it’s equivalent to Ben throwing a tantrum after finding out 25% of his pie is made of pastry

I feel like if I’m pissing off Nazis I’m on the right track. Thanks Sarah McCoy 💉💉💉💉 for reporting, happy to send him my new parcel locker x

Be nice if we did something about this other than go for a walk (like making housing actually affordable and accessible so that women have somewhere to escape male violence). Our housing fiasco forces more and more women to stay with abusers because the alternative isn’t safety,…

Don’t worry Americans, you can come threaten me at my new address, she’s got NBN and everything x

Was it something I said?

Housing is unaffordable but this guy reckons people should just stop being poor instead 🙃

Genuinely unsure as to what the government expects us to do - they’re sowing the discontent themselves.

Don’t worry, increasing Commonwealth Rent Assistance for the tiny proportion of people who get it will fix things 👍

(An eligible welfare recipient would receive $63 a week to help cover the $330 they’d be paying to live on this balcony. The JobSeeker payment is $381 per week.)

“Sunny room” - my brother in Christ that is a balcony.

You can’t deduct hail damage from a tenant’s bond, Jess.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. “Market value” isn’t legitimate in a market where the “product” you are buying is an essential human need and a human right whose cost has been artificially inflated by real estate ghouls and greedy landlords.

Article 11 of the ICESCR gives us the right to continuous improvement of our living conditions - but in reality and in real terms, the Australian government has created a system where we pay more and more money for a continually devolving standard of housing.

Great news about WA rental reforms: before you get kicked out with a no-grounds eviction or have to move after a crippling rent increase, you can make things a little homey first!
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

A national rent strike would absolutely collapse our state and territory Civil and Administrative Tribunals which are already overwhelmed.
This isn’t on the cards, nor am I calling for it (just yet), just want our governments to be aware of this possibility.
A landlord can’t…

How bad does it have to get before governments actually do something?