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Sandra will never own a home. Meet the boomers struggling in the housing crisis (www.sbs.com.au)

submitted 2 weeks ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[–] okwithmydecay@leminal.space 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

For the people voting this down, this article highlights an important issue, which is that women aged 55 and over are at growing risk of homelessness.

Even more worrying for Sandra is the prospect of joining the fastest-growing group of people experiencing homelessness in Australia: women aged 55 and over.

Sydney-based Bacon has particular concern for the rising number of women facing homelessness in their older years.

She says this is because women typically have about 25 per cent less superannuation than men, due to the gender pay gap, which flows onto a gender retirement gap and motherhood penalty.

[–] CTDummy@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair point, a pity neither the article, her nor the second woman focused on that and instead feels more like them complaining about boomers being perceived as being given every leg up. Which is a complaint of younger generations trying to break into an impossibly competitive housing market.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course they did, it's a way to manufacture outrage

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Agree, Taleya, and also a way to divide people from each other, creating unneeded hostility and judgementalism.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net -5 points 2 weeks ago

On that, there is a doco on ABC about that

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/under-cover

Mental or physical heath issues aside (they need help through no fault of their own) , the lady in the article had 70 years to sort her shit out and didn't bother and now comes across to me as entitled. I'm 61 and retired at 40.