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De-commodify housing.
by freshcatch_ 8y ago
De-commodify housing.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoWouldn't that make housing more expensive, rather than less?
- Teeer 8y agoNo, since it would reduce demand from investors. Look at Japan- their housing is surprisingly affordable in Tokyo despite being in a major city. Due to flexible zoning laws, houses can be built almost anywhere. Houses are deprecating assets, like cars, rather than investments, like houses in America/Canada/etc.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoSo, if I understand you correctly, we need to make houses not "commodities" in an investment sense. But doing so requires producing a lot more housing. That may mean making them "commodities" in a colloquial sense - that they're ordinary, pretty much interchangeable. (Most people, most of the time, don't care very much which brand of potato chips someone brought to the party...)
- hedora 8y agoThe easiest way to do that is to make prop 13 for primary residences only.
- closeparen 8y agoI love this phease. It’s so brilliantly cheap, edgy, holier-than-thou without bothering to actually suggest anything of substance or make any kind of proposal that could be subject to scrutiny. An active market for mostly-interchangeable housing units is a great thing. No one wants to see a world where housing isn’t a commodity, unless they already live in their ideal home. We want to see a world where it’s cheaper.
- joeblow9999 8y agoyeah what does 'de-commodify' even mean?