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In Australia, for many people the (new) Australian dream is:
"One day I hope to have the income to be able to afford to pass the grueling real estate agent's suitability test to rent a house and move out of the tent/car."
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Contracts signed by mentally incompetent people are generally invalid. So this article isn't about that. Therefore, when the article says the courts accept the contracts as valid they can't be talking about the contracts signed by the infirm, but the article conflates both things maliciously.
I would suggest that you read the ProPublica article that is the source of the claim, which details a years-long legal battle that then ensued, before you continue. It's not as cut and dry as you would like it to be. The following is literally about a "contract signed by the infirm": >After David learned of the contract, he explained to Evans that his mother had dementia and tried to cancel the sale. Instead of walki…
>> Home ownership is the American dream: In Australia, for many people the (new) Australian dream is: "One day I hope to have the income to be able to afford to pass the grueling real estate agent's suitability test to rent a house and move out of the tent/car."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would suggest that you read the ProPublica article that is the source of the claim, which details a years-long legal battle that then ensued, before you continue. It's not as cut and dry as you would like it to be. The following is literally about a "contract signed by the infirm": >After David learned of the contract, he explained to Evans that his mother had dementia and tried to cancel the sale. Instead of walki…
Not disputing this is fucked up shit, but it's unfortunate there's not a super clear explanation of where the legal system is failing here. In general, it seems like a huge problem that people who probably are not capable of signing contracts can in fact sign them and have no real recourse for dealing with it. Seems like a good spot for a safety net.
>> Home ownership is the American dream: In Australia, for many people the (new) Australian dream is: "One day I hope to have the income to be able to afford to pass the grueling real estate agent's suitability test to rent a house and move out of the tent/car."
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It's used to be a small number of people here and there.
The obsession with owning real estate has turned our society into landlords and renters, with renters paying the mortgages on their landlords investments - mortgages which are spiraling up due to interest rate rises.
Nearly all the members of parliament have extensive housing portfolios so they have disincentive to fix it. In fact recently house prices were going down, so the ALP government just fast tracked in 715,000 migrants, which has fixed that problem nicely.
Australia was already in the worst housing crisis ever in its history. When asked how the 715,000 migrants will impact the housing crisis, the ALP government simply says that migration does not impact housing, and that the housing crisis is not the fault of migrants.
Previously even the slightest questioning of migration risked you being labelled a racist, but with the new government fast tracking 715,000 and planning for 1.5 million migrants in the next five years, it's has become a huge community issue and many are standing up and asking why we are importing vast numbers of people when the country does not have the housing or resources to support them.
The people at the bottom of society - who don't look great on a rental application form - what are they doing? I don't know what happens to them. It's awful and the ALP government really don't care.
I've come to deeply hate government in general. The ALP is meant to be the left wing party that looks after ordinary people. Instead it has turned out to be just another bunch of rich politicians feathering their own nests.
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Shoplifting: not stealing.
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The revolutionary film Soy Cuba also features this completely bogus line of thinking. The farmer sells over his land because he's broke then goes insane when he's evicted by the "mean capitalist" to whom he sold the farm. Somehow this forms the basis for the revolutionary spirit. People completely miss this. They just see evil capitalists under every stone.
The interesting things is that the signs appeared to be handwritten with a black marker but all of them looked exactly the same. There were commercially produced but they took the effort to hide it.
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Not disputing this is fucked up shit, but it's unfortunate there's not a super clear explanation of where the legal system is failing here. In general, it seems like a huge problem that people who probably are not capable of signing contracts can in fact sign them and have no real recourse for dealing with it. Seems like a good spot for a safety net.
There is a very long history of courts having people declared mentally incompetent to enable all sorts of abuse. Being cautious in cases like this is entirely reasonable, even when it's painful.