"Sending a 'special' message
The homemade labels, made to look like real Woolworths and Coles shelf tickets, have been placed in stores across Australia.

They highlight the big profits the businesses have made in the past year, the high wages of executives, the affordability of food,
and the issue of food wastage.

One message labelled as a 'special' with a Woolworths logo on it reads: "We understand that times are tough, and that’s why we pay our CEO over $20,000 a day.""

#Woolworths #Coles #Supermarket #Activism #Affordability #Food #Greed #Profiteering #Australia

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-activists-waging-a-guerrilla-campaign-against-coles-and-woolworths/xl0ab4q4a

“The #HousingCrisis, #ClimateCrisis, #HealthCare crisis, and #affordability crisis aren’t communications failures. They’re #policy failures. They’re material challenges stemming from the way government policies — at home and abroad, local, provincial, and federal — shape Canadians’ lives.” https://mstdn.ca/@Catelli/111041375975449289

“He blamed the rising cost of everything on taxes. By eliminating these, he promised he will rein in the affordability crisis. This language might resonate well as a set of slogans, but slogans won’t be enough to address the deepening affordability crisis in Canada. Eventually, people will need to know how their paycheques are going to become more powerful.”
#cdnpoli #affordability #inflation
https://www.readthemaple.com/the-conservative-party-has-no-real-solutions-for-the-affordability-crisis/

Beaverton: 5 solutions to fix housing prices that are never, ever making them less expensive https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/09/5-solutions-to-fix-housing-prices-that-are-never-ever-making-them-less-expensive/ #satire #canada #commentary #affordability #RealEstate #Beavfeed #housing #Trudeau #Canada

WTAF Canada Competition Bureau ordered to pay $13M for DOING ITS JOB. Good God. This country and its corporate capture. We continue to pay the highest cellphone bills IN THE WORLD. #CanPoli #BCPoli #Affordability #Rogers #Shaw
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-pays-rogers-shaw-1.6951656

The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) is offering #grants to #journalists reporting on #healthcare and #education. Priority will be given to #journalism projects that advance policymaker and public understanding of issues related to #affordability and how increasing #costs impact quality and access. The deadline to apply is October 10 at 5 p.m. ET. https://nihcm.org/grants/journalism-grants

Some good news on the housing front. A multi -sector plan that is comprehensive, innovation, smart. I am feeling more hopeful than I have in a long time.

What will it take to solve Canada's rental housing crunch?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJXJRcrLhCU&feature=share

#housing #Canada #CDNpoli #onpoli #affordability #poverty #disability #socialJustice #rentalCrisis

Global News BC: Federal government should have stayed in housing game, minister says https://globalnews.ca/news/9896392/federal-housing-sean-fraser/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #housingaffordability #Vancouverhousing #housingminister #Affordability #CostofLiving #Rentincrease #B.C.Housing #SeanFraser #inflation #Vancouver #Politics #Housing #Rent

In related news, Grocery store workers are striking in Toronto for liveable wages. It is beyond disgusting that billionaires are getting their billions off the backs of poverty-wage workers and soon-to-be-in-poverty customers. #solidarity #affordability #food #union #organize #CANpoli #CdnPoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/metro-gta-strike-day-3-1.6923102

#RealEstate #Affordability #HomeOwnership

The realities that make home ownership difficult or impossible for many are not limited to Millenials.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/realtor-explains-why-millennials-buy-homes_l_64c0016be4b08a8c9211f5a6

Tell the Federal Gov about the rent being too damn high-- it could force landlords who get government-backed loans to behave in ways that protect #tenants.

"As a result of #TenantOrganizing, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which regulates Fannie and Freddie, is now deciding whether to condition government-backed loans on a set of tenant protections. These protections could include regulations on rent hikes and evictions, #housing safety requirements, bans on discrimination, and more. If enacted, they could benefit over 12.4 million rental homes across the country."

So before the July 31 deadline, tell this federal agency any stories of rent hikes and struggles due to housing costs here:
https://www.fhfa.gov/AboutUs/Contact/Pages/Request-for-Information-Form.aspx?emci=ff7a0033-1528-ee11-a9bb-00224832e1ba&emdi=23eeb48e-f32a-ee11-b8f0-00224832eb73&ceid=10176568

Comments are *public​* so don't doxx yourself by giving too much identifying information. Unless you want to.

Here's some background info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17dIbUV_3i4zlgchL6sCqHNv8oNfIQah6BqEzZYPV3qc/edit?emci=ff7a0033-1528-ee11-a9bb-00224832e1ba&emdi=23eeb48e-f32a-ee11-b8f0-00224832eb73&ceid=10176568

And please take a moment to share this with anyone you know who's struggled or been displaced by rents being too damn high.

#Affordability #Tenants #Organizing

In the US, the price of college #tuition started rising faster than household incomes in 1982, the year I started teaching college. I had a front-row seat to this slow-motion train wreck. The chart in this article shows how bad the price/income disparity has become.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2023/07/23/1982-the-last-time-college-costs-kept-pace-with-median-income/

#Academia #Affordability #Colleges #HigherEd #Universities #Inflation
@academicchatter

Hello again! Here to rant about media re: #housing #affordability #ontario and just how irritating it is when survival tactics are treated as solutions- renting a bedroom instead of an apartment or not living in a city if you have children (because they can’t pay part of your rent). If you work in a place, then you must be able to live in it and wages must reflect this! #co-op housing, community ownership must be supported! https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/business/2023/2/3/1_6258411.amp.html

Beaverton: Minister Ahmed Hussen fixes housing prices by knocking $20 off his newest rental property https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/07/minister-ahmed-hussen-fixes-housing-prices-by-knocking-20-off-his-newest-rental-property/ #satire #canada #commentary #propertyvalues #affordability #housingprices #AhmedHussen #RealEstate #Ottawa #rent

https://nkvsspsundaycomics.thecomicseries.com/comics/271/

housing, we have a problem

#sundayvibes #housing #search #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #NKVSSP #section8 #affordability #longTerm #issue #solution #canada #vacationRental #industry #ventureCapitalism #sundaymorning #sundaycomic #vibecheck

RT CEER
#EUSEW2023: CEER WG Coordinator Irama Zamora stresses that we need targeted measures to help vulnerable #consumers & combat #energypoverty. Besides #affordability, consumers can also be #empowered through their voice & redress mechanisms.
#JustTransition #ConsumerProtection https://t.co/orX4XunnIU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CEERenergy/status/1671515126988406785

$104k is now considered “low income” for a single person in the Bay Area. Wowzers! #BayArea #IncomeDisparity #Affordability

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/low-income-median-levels-18164328.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2JheWFyZWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9sb3ctaW5jb21lLW1lZGlhbi1sZXZlbHMtMTgxNjQzMjgucGhw&time=MTY4NzYzMjQzODkyNw==&rid=ZDExODQ2YWItZDMyNC00NmY4LThhZDItM2JiZjQ4YTdlN2Q4&sharecount=Mg==

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People associate “low income” with desperate poverty, but shouldn’t.

In the context of housing, the term has a specific meaning, defined by the state under new 2023 guidelines for Ventura County to mean a family of 4 making $106,250/year.

And that’s countywide; the threshold is likely higher in Thousand Oaks.

That’s right: “Low income” is well in excess of 100k/year. #housing #affordability

https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/income-limits-2023.pdf

2023 NYC TRUE COST OF LIVING REPORT

"In 2021, we released the previous Overlooked and Undercounted report which measured the economic security of New Yorkers before the onset of COVID-19. Two years later, utilizing the 2023 New York City True Cost of Living and the 2021 American Community Survey, we can now document the pandemic’s profound economic impact on New York City households."

https://unitedwaynyc.org/true-cost-of-living/

#NYC #Housing #RealEstate #Affordability #UnitedWay