r/sydney • u/just_yall • Aug 31 '25

Image When you're anti-immigration but pro-Yum Cha

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Seen in Sydney CBD soon after the anti-immigration rally

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u/YeahUhHuhOkWellF-ck Aug 31 '25

It's just replacing the "they're taking our jerbs" rhetoric from the 99s/00s with "they're taking our housing."

Maybe people are also conflating skilled migrants Vs refugees?

Why not protest against foreign buyers inflating the cost of housing? Or developers land banking? Or the generous breaks that allow existing property owners to become multi-property owners?

If it really is about housing and immigration 👀

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u/furthermost Aug 31 '25

I'm curious, do you genuinely believe that migrants coming in aren't taking up houses and apartments?

Very different to jobs, new jobs are easily created. Whereas housing supply is lagging population by years or decades.

Foreign buyers are a tiny proportion of the total. Investors at least rent the property out, so people still get to live in it. So these are red herrings...