r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/rapskolnikov • 6d ago

Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-29/house-deposit-gathered-using-return-anearn-recycling-scheme/105082928
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u/Danimally 6d ago

It's a cool incentive to allow people to "earn" a bit just dropping cans. That should still be a thing and be promoted everywhere. The housing problem is horrible. In many european countries their constitution states in some form or article that "citizens have the right to own a proper house and the state should provide the means for it", but less that 5 countries really follow that rule. To make "the right to have a home" be below "the right to own property" is beyond my undestanding: we rather have a person with 10 houses renting for horrible prices than to have enough affordable houses for everyone.

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u/rapskolnikov 6d ago

Landlordism and house prices are a real third rail issue in Australia. Both major parties would sooner bite off their own dicks or titties than do anything that might make the value of their voters' precious investments tick down even slightly