Public Housing should be STOPPED & SOLD

[ufo_investigations]

The government buys houses and rents them out to people at a discounted rate and the tax payer has to carry this burden.

Why is this so?   Governments should not be buying houses!

I'm sorry but we should not have government housing!

Complete waste money!

All government housing should be sold to private sector!

The millions of dollars raised from the sale will build better roads, freeways, hospitals.

Governments should govern NOT buy houses for people to live in!

The job of government is to govern not babysit people!

***** Dear State Governments **** Please SELL ALL GOVERNMENT HOUSES !!! ****

[lyne-flyn]

UFO suggested $200 per week.

I have no idea how many people in Australia are in government housing but even if there were only 100,000 country wide that would be

$25,000,000 per WEEK...or  $1,300,000,000 per year.

I am sure that it does not cost anywhere near that for upkeep of government housing per year.

I can really see the goverment agreeing to do this when UFO lobby's them...NOT.

[cherry*135]

Yes, it would be 'dead' money.

I can't see C/L handing over $250 a week for a private rental when the low income person is only contributing $150 either.

Plus their unemployment benefit; disability benefit ;parenting payment, family tax benefit.

Those that are fit for work wouldn't have any incentive to work, if they get payments plus a nice private house to live in at a huge discount not afforded to people that do work.

There is an acute shortage of private rentals in the wider area where I live... adding public housing tenants to the demand would mean many homeless, even those that can afford to pay market rent.

[ufo_investigations]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@pct001wine wrote:

I'm thinking that the OP's worst nightmare would be to have neighbours in a publicly-funded house that are welfare-dependent and Muslim.

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And homosexual.

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Not here we don't!