Housing Crisis

I don’t know how it is in other lands,

But where I live it’s well and truly rigged;

Young and poor can’t satisfy their demands

For shelter which continue unfulfilled.

Housing’s form is a rampant free market;

(Prices result from supply and demand),

But if house prices should ever cark it

Pollie’s positions would be quickly tanned.

‘Roasted’ could also cover what I mean:

Pollies are aware that their government

Can be quite dependent on what is seen

By homeowners, who are to remain content:

Property owners a demographic

Having more than considerable force

Whose support can be viewed as a magic

Way to keep Government in place and on course.

Here’s a strategy used with much acclaim:

Help provided to lower income buyers.

Various Government incentives are lame,

Fraudulent in fact, cooked up by shysters.

All they mean is an increase in demand,

Subsequent increase in housing prices.

Happy days - for home owners so grand,

And sole purpose of these exercises.