Another Liberal frontbencher said some Australians could put "a jumper on in winter" instead of stricter housing standards.
Bruh
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Another Liberal frontbencher said some Australians could put "a jumper on in winter" instead of stricter housing standards.
Bruh
Posted by No1PaulKeatingfan
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> Opposition housing and homelessness spokesperson Andrew Bragg announced on Wednesday that the Opposition would reduce the national housing code from 2,000 pages to 80 if elected.
> When asked by ABC Radio National on Thursday morning whether his policy means low-income earners should just accept living in substandard housing, he replied: “Yes, definitely.”
This will surely play well !ping AUS
Yeah, this conversation isn’t going well in Australia. I [tried to give it some context](https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/1vn0jru/comment/p3dv7qq/), but it’s hard-going.
I mean what is the definition of “substandard”?
Is it not a huge suburban SFH with two parking spots? Then definitely
Is it a half-basement apartment that compromises safety like the ones in *Parasite* (yes, those exist and are living realities of many in South Korea)? Then ideally no.
Edit: regardless, I think it’s politically idiotic for a politician to talk about people living in “substandard” homes. You have a whole vocabulary about deregulation that can sounds very positive bro.
Whenever I talk about reducing parking minimums or stairwell / elevator requirements you’d think I said the same thing as Bragg did.
I don’t mean this dismissively, but people are very sensitive to perceptions of permanent caps on their attainment and this sounds like that to some, those whose votes will be needed
“let people sell lower quality products for cheaper so that poorer people can choose rather than being priced out” seems unpopular but not necessarily bad if you can tell when things are low quality?