This author barely drags herself out of euphemisms to describe the current state of society per se.
She talks herein of the northern rivers of NSW. The answer from Byron Bay, the epicentre of the greens and its drug culture, is to legislate through council, the right of the drug F* to live out their useless and totally unproductive life in peace, in a paddock designated for the purpose, on the edge of town.

Where situations such as riding bicycles naked trough the main CBD are applauded. Where lies the centre for cultural awareness and acceptance through decriminalisation of any recreation (sic) drug, are centre stage of their political drive forward (sic). Where policing is under constant pressure to allow the freewheeling drug culture to progress unhindered; and where the riot squad is stationed full time.

Turning this crowd into victims, only destroys any chance of affordable housing for the deserving. IE those ambitious enough to work, and present themselves in a fit state to do so.
I've pretty well descibd the crowd in question in this article. Commonly termed back packers.

No, what we need in this country is affordable housing for the good guys. Families, where their children aren't forced by greedy rent gougers, into short term leases which force the good guys into a state of family instability, with such outcomes as their children similarly forced to reenrol in multiple schools during their childhood education.

The same good guys thrown out on their ear, making way for rent rises forced by rent gougers, capitaling on their greedy property investments without regard for negative social outcomes.

What nearly fifty percent of Australians, the renters, are waiting for is evidence of a political will from politicians, preferably ones without a vested interest in making the current horror story worse for this underclass and much more comfortable and profitable for themselves.

So no, I am not in favour of victimising the good guys by moving drug addicts, reformed or otherwise, (who would know), into neighbouring properties with government subsidies mostly beneficial to NGO's.

Dan.

As the son of a deserted single again mum, also trying for over a fruitless decade when public housing was far larger and more generous! Was made very aware through cuntless interviews, that top of the list were skilled migrants and migrant families?

And given the quite massive shrinkage in public housing! Homelessness has become and studiously ignored social issue by politicians that would make Herr Himmler look warm and cuddly in comparison to their, self-evident, perceived empathy!?

What needs to happen here is all eligible voters must enrol, then interrogate their potential members on all sides to understand and get their commitment on a number of equally important social issues and other first-order priorities.

Public housing, climate change, energy and water policies and why the unconscionable opposition to now essential development and rollout of nuclear power!

We need to stop flogging the dead horse of economic rationalism and its equally insane and thoroughly disgraced trickle-down economics! If you don't like outcomes like us going from the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a creditor one at that, to one mired in record domestic and foreign debt as we and our assets are sold down the river!

Then stop whining about it, do a Greta, get up off of your lar asses, get on the roll and do something we all can do, get on paper commitments from nominated pollies, that need to be part of our representative's employment contracts! And must be honoured as part of our representative's renewed employment contracts!

Don't just do something, stand there!
Alan B.

Alan B,
Intriguing interviews I must say ! ;-)

Reforms to the affordability of housing are solely the Fed/State Govts responsibility, as are in fact just about all aspects in our lives. They stipulate everything from cradle to grave & they're the ones placing the hurdles in strategic places. Insensitive, irresponsible & corrupt authorities are putting people between rocks & hard places. They're channelling large amounts of money to greedy, undeserving terrorists of our economy via sickening tax systems. Many more people could lead better lives if the authorities had just an ounce of integrity & compassion. As it stands, compassion is in all the morally wrong places !

looks like people just don't care about housing for others !