I'm on the DSP due to epilepsy. Regularly having my drivers licence suspended dur to seizures.
In 2010 when I turned 18 I rented a room in a sharehouse was $100 per week (26 Weller street. Back then it sold for $310k. That regional house last sold for just under a million).
For 3 years I lived there, the $100 per week cost had little money remaining in my budget, so I moved back in with my Dad.
Post covid when rental costs were $510 per week my Dad (and narcissistic mother who much of my life I've been Estranged with) chipped in for me to get a rental. In 2024 when the rent increased my mother ignored my messaged and notified the agent I was moving out.
Now a room in a sharehouse even in Warragul is $250 per week which I can't cover on DSP. DSP hasn't been indexed with inflation. I go without fruit and veg now. A couple of days ago I signed up online for social housing.
Many boomers say but we might give your generation money inheritance. Millennials and gen Z aren't inheriting the same cost of houses to inflation the boomers got. By the time we're 80 and maybe get inheritance we'll no longer have the biological capacity to have kids 💔 Blokes the past 3 years at my footy club can't even afford to buy themselves a beer let alone a girl a drink and buy his own home.
I've been assaulted 3 times in Melb over the past 2 years. 2/3 on trams. One by Luke Gardiner last September who lives in social housing in Preston, has a history of assaulting women. He was granted an adornment by Brett Sonnet (who was the first judge to sentence someone for doing the nazi salute). The other 3 times Luke hasn't turned up for court. He's now evading police. Any violent or illicit drug affected person should be voided from social housing. Put immediately on a plane a d deported if not Aus citizens., other wise put in strict mental asylums or prisons.
Vagrancy act 1966 should be brought back. Repeal VicLab amendments to the mental health act 1986