Not eating to pay the rent

Australia is facing a crisis as people are Not eating to pay the rent:

THOUSANDS of people across the country are skipping meals to pay rising rents, a housing affordability conference in Sydney heard yesterday.

And housing experts warn the home affordability crisis threatens to destabilise the economy and drive the country into recession.

Experts told the housing conference yesterday that Australia faced great social unrest and human suffering as well as chronic labour shortages without affordable housing.

And people thought that things were going great under Howard. Now, the flimsiness of that economic miracle is being exposed.