Housing Shortage

[spacesailor]

" $2,000,000.  "

That's cheaper than a llifetime of renting ! .

Then finding your pension is less than your rent .

spacesailor

 

[facthunter]

Geez Louise, that's depressing.  Share or go bush. Hit the road in a cheap caravan. Go to  a Country where things are better. .   Nev

[facthunter]

Toongabbie doesn't seem like much of a place.  Nev

[spacesailor]

Night worker's are hard at it to night. 

I wonder what daybreak will bring .

we were promised a roundabout a few years ago .

Perhaps they didn't forget us after all. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Then you will get Centripetal accidents in a roundabout way.   Nev

[pmccarthy]

If its there this morning, its a magic roundabout.

[willedoo]

Where I live the traffic is getting to the stage where they're putting traffic lights at roundabouts or getting rid of them and installing normal traffic light intersections. It's only happening on the really bad roundabouts, there's thousands of small ones that still work ok.

[willedoo]

With the roundabouts with traffic lights, the lights are only in use at peak traffic times. The rest of the time the roundabout functions as normal.

[facthunter]

Roundabouts intimidate a lot of people. and are not safe for motorcycles with a lot of other cars around. Neither is stopping to make a right turn.   Sometimes even stopping at a red light is not safe. Nev

[spacesailor]

no magic ! . After all. They have forgotten us. 

I can't see what they were there for .

Maybe repainted the white lines .

Disappointed. 

spacesailor

[spacesailor]

Now they have taken the " service road for " bicyclist .

That's the upgrade for motorist in this region. 

It doesn't matter how bad it is , for the motorist getting into the traffic flow .

Just paint cycle paths were the cars should be going .

no seat belts , no helmets , no road- worthy tests nor insurance for  bicycles trailers,  with passengers. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

This has something to do with a Housing shortage? And I've run out of anti depressants, space.  Nev

[onetrack]

We should all chip in and get Spacey a T shirt that reads, "JAGOM" ("Just Another Grumpy Old Man").

[nomadpete]

7 minutes ago, onetrack said:

We should all chip in and get Spacey a T shirt that reads, "JAGOM" ("Just Another Grumpy Old Man").

Order one for me while you're at it....

[facthunter]

I think we have to be careful. I don't know IF He would cope with being happy... I'm more worried about what it's doing to me.  I thought  I was a survivor.   Nev

[onetrack]

We're all survivors, Nev. I've outlived a lot of people I knew, worked for, worked with, and associated with, that I thought would've lived a lot longer.

[facthunter]

My PAPER address book is full of deceased friends. It's NOT easy.   Nev

[red750]

With the constant stories of housing shortage, one thing amazes me,

 

I've lived in my house here in Vermont since late 1978, About a kilometer around the road, there's a two storey house which  appears to have been empty the entire time I've been here. I have never seen any indication of anyone living there. The grass gets cut occasionally but other than that, the windows and the gateway are boarded or fenced up. There are a couple of photographs below.

 

 

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

In the UK it is estimated there are more pemanently empty dwellings than homeless people. Of course, if you are an owner of one of the empty dwellings, you pay double the council tax (rates). And, you may be liable for CGT as well, when you sell, although a quirk of the law here, which exempts you from CGT if yoo lived 5 years or more in the house as a priomary residence means sometimes families flip between their houses. And of course, you may not want anyone living in you hose, especially on a social housing basis due to the fact they are stereotyped to have a higher probability of not taking reasonable care of it.

 

In Australia, it is not quite as easy to work out. The best I could come up with is this: https://www.ahuri.edu.au/analysis/brief/are-there-1-million-empty-homes-and-13-million-unused-bedrooms

 

I get that there is a macro-lens on thiks; a lot of the more permanently empty dwellings should be forced onto the rental market/take in social housing tenants. But, when we bought this house, which has a 2br self-contained cottage on site, the state it was in after the council tenants were removed was parlous, and I will be  buggered if I put it up for social housing after the effort I put in to put it back to a reasonable standard. And, no offence, but a couple of spare bedrooms is there for a reason and not to have some nutter I don't know move in.

Edited Tuesday at 06:27 AM by Jerry_Atrick

[onetrack]

It is possible the house is under the control of a Trustee who is looking after the affairs of either a Trust, or someone who is incapacitated, and unable to attend to their affairs.

I have seen both cars and houses left seemingly abandoned for years, but they have been under the control of the Public Trustee during all that time, as estates are settled or run by the Trustee, as the owner is either deceased and the will is being disputed, or they're suffering from dementia, in a coma, or something similar.