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Housing is such a big problem. And a collective thing. The key to solving it is to make sure everyone is focused on affordable housing. Once you got a impactf
by petra 8y ago
Housing is such a big problem. And a collective thing.
The key to solving it is to make sure everyone is focused on affordable housing.
Once you got a impactful part of society focused on something else, for example extracting rent - you've lost.
That's why Germany managed to create a working, affordable housing system after ww2.
And that's why Israel, in it's early years, managed to do the same, and offer affordable housing to everyone,while working under dire economic situation.
- thorwasdfasdf 8y agowe need housing to be affordable (for everyone), not affordable housing.
- djakjxnanjak 8y agoI think the solution is clear. Legalize tall buildings. Requiring someone to own or rent thousands of square feet of land to get access to hundreds of square feet of housing is guaranteed to lead to shortages.
- thatfrenchguy 8y agoAnd abolish prop 13 in California and other tax pyramid schemes ? Especially for entities that are not people.
- r00fus 8y agoI wonder why even with a super majority, Dems still haven’t raised split-roll for removing prop13 for corporations.
- Ericson2314 8y agoA very good question!
- zzzzzzzza 8y agoLand value taxes. What's better than legalizing tall buildings, is incentivizing tall buildings.
- grogenaut 8y agocorrect me if I'm wrong but I heard it's very difficult to find any short term transitory housing in Germany, I had heard that short leases / rentals were 2 year terms. This makes it a lot harder to move into an area and decide where you want to live which in turn makes mobility more difficult. However this info may be out of date / incorrect.