MELBOURNE Claudio Bravo World Cup Jersey , July 7 (Xinhua) -- Rental affordability in Melbournehas hit an all-time low, according to a government report releasedon Friday.
The report, compiled by the Department of Health and HumanServices' (DHHS), found that 5.7 percent of rental properties thathit the market in the first quarter of 2017 were deemed affordable,the lowest figure in the 17-year history of the report.
In comparison Charles Aranguiz World Cup Jersey , more than 16 percent of new rentals wereaffordable when the report was first compiled in 2000.
The DHHS defines affordable as costing less than 30 percent ofgovernment assistance.
The median weekly rent in the Victoria State has increased 75.7percent since 2007 while household income grew just 38.8 percentduring the same time.
Adrian Pisarski, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of housingaffordability advocacy firm National Shelter, said slow wage growthwas responsible for the lack of affordable housing.
He said recently introduced government incentives such as taxbreaks for investors in public would not have an impact for threeto five years.
"In the meantime, I would suspect that these numbers (would)keep deteriorating," Piskari told Australian media on Friday.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data obtained via the 2016census found that social housing in Australia had dropped to thelowest level in 60 years.
Dandenong Arturo Vidal World Cup Jersey , in Melbourne's south-east, experienced the biggestdrop in affordable housing from 58.1 percent in the first quarterof 2000 to 8.5 17 years later.
Kate Colvin, policy and communications manager for Council toHomeless Persons, said rental affordability was the main driver ofrising homelessness in Victoria.
"It's just indicative of broader government policy failure,"Colvin said.
"The way the tax incentives are structured means there are moreincentives to invest at the more expensive end of the market."Enditem
Pictures from Michelle Villemaire's Correcting Yellowface project featuring actress Katharine Hepburn (left) Alexis Sanchez World Cup Jersey , Scarlett Johansson (top) and Villemaire Photos: Courtesy of Villemaire Pictures from Michelle Villemaire's Correcting Yellowface project featuring actress Katharine Hepburn (left), Scarlett Johansson (top) and Villemaire Photos: Courtesy of Villemaire
Does Hollywood have a white preference?
While a number of black actors and filmmakers boycotted the Oscars to express their dissatisfaction with this year's all white nominee list, Michelle Villemaire, an Asian mom and blogger in Los Angeles, is trying to change things by "correcting yellowface."
Villemaire Chile World Cup Jerseys , whose mother is Thai-Chinese, runs a blog which shares DIY projects and personal experiences. Recently, she started a new project called Correcting Yellowface, which caught the attention of the Internet world. For the project, Villemaire takes pictures of herself as famous Asian characters who were played by white actresses in films Pablo Hernandez World Cup Jersey , such as Olan in The Good Earth (played by Luise Rainer), Jade in Dragon Seed (played by Katharine Hepburn) and Motoko Kusanagi in the currently in production Ghost in the Shell (played by Scarlett Johansson).
The project is Villemaire's personal response to the racial typecasting that she feels is still prominent in today's Hollywood. On her blog she wrote a post explaining that her inspiration for the project originated in her experiences not seeing many Asian faces on television and in films while growing up.
"And because I wanted to be an actor, it was really hard to believe that I could ever be one. Only women who had a certain skin color and eye shape were really allowed on screen, right? To this day white people are cast as Asians, deepening the message that Asians just aren't wanted Nicolas Castillo World Cup Jersey ," Villemaire wrote.
Purchasing as many props as she could or making those she could not find herself, Villemaire dressed up and recreated famous scenes caught on camera. With the help of a friend who understood photoshop, she successfully put herself in almost the same environment as the original stars.
Villemaire is not the only Asian American who feels mistreated because of her race.
Around the same time when Villemaire was working on her project, Jonathan Park, a Korean American rapper better known as Dumbfoundead Mauricio Pinilla World Cup Jersey , uploaded a music video on Facebook. In the video, the musician imagines himself in various lead roles in Hollywood films but in the end he is replaced by a white actor because the "director" thinks his face lacks that "Hollywood star quality."
"I think Hollywood has a hard time casting Asians in lead roles. Take romantic comedies for example. Never Asians. There is a false perception that America won't like it. I am so grateful for the noise that Asians made this year - it brought a lot of attention to this travesty," Villemaire told the Global Times in an e-mail.
As "weird" and a little "giddy" as Villemaire felt about her project at the beginning, Correcting Yellowface, however Mauricio Isla World Cup Jersey , has sparked applauds since it was first posted online in late May.
"There have been many people contacting me telling me how moved they were by the project. My favorite response was 'I looked at your pics and for a moment I felt healed.' I have loved hearing from Asians all over the world, not just Asian Americans," the mother of two said.
Now she has decided to continue to mix DIY projects with social justice.
"Surprising, I've found that these two areas of interest work together very well. I will continue to fight for Asian inclusion in Hollywood," Villemaire said.
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