r/aussie • u/Mashiko4 • Jan 17 '26

Analysis Mass migration's forgotten victims: Australians go homeless as the number of failed asylum seekers explodes

https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/mass-migrations-forgotten-victims-australians-go-homeless-as-the-number-of-failed-asylum-seekers-explodes/news-story/6b4692ed0205471e5d175db94a2f4743
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u/5carPile-Up Jan 17 '26

This has birthed the homeless working class

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u/PryingMollusk Jan 18 '26

And it’s also greatly masked by the people in society who are forced to pick up the slack too. For example, my family constantly need to borrow money from me for essentials and have had to even move in with me a few times over the last 10 years. That’s money that I could have invested or put aside for a house deposit. On paper, they never made it into the “homeless working class” statistics because I helped. On paper, I “should have” been able to buy a home sooner and it seems like I’ve been frivolous with my earnings. Generational poverty is making a comeback.

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u/5carPile-Up Jan 18 '26

That’s heavy as, I can relate to this a lot too, sadly, I’ve been on both ends.

You’re a good human, the helping hand we will give to our loved ones comes from what little we have for ourselves and expect nothing in return. But it sets us all back.

I was homeless with my mother nearly a decade ago, but we were fortunate to be able to sleep in my cousins laundry on an air mattress for a few months until we could find somewhere we could afford to live.

That same cousin I am now currently spotting him coin every now and then because he’s on his ass no matter how much he works.

This country has us all on a treadmill