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As a person living in austria, I strongly believe that goverment build housing and strong regulation of pricing and the market is the only way to keep housing a
by bpfrh 7y ago
As a person living in austria, I strongly believe that goverment build housing and strong regulation of pricing and the market is the only way to keep housing affordable for all people and not make it a speculation object like in germany/berlin.
Did you know that in the late 90 the housing was good and affordable?
And that a big chunk was owned by the city or state?
That these things were then sold for pennies, to companies who only want to exploit people?
Did you know that after there were laws passed against raising the rent exorbitant, many companies cheated?
They raised the cost that you have to pay for the house services which are included, without doing that services or charging way to high
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- stefanfisk 7y agothe exact same transition happened here in Sweden, and now the housing market is so fucked that it might take down the economy in the next recession.
- afjl 7y agoWhat's wrong with the housing market in Sweden?
- linuxftw 7y ago> Did you know that in the late 90 the housing was good and affordable? Obviously, affordable is subjective. People in cities have demanded ever-expanding services. Better sanitation, better public transit, electricity, everything new has to be super safe, everything new has to have 16 handi-capable toilets per 1 handi-capable user, subsidized housing for the poor, free education, free higher education, free healthcare, higher taxes on businesses, higher regulation of existing businesses. Some of those things are probably necessary. Some are probably really nice to have. Everything has a price. Rent control is a great way to make slums. There's no market incentive to make your placer any nicer than someone else's because you're competing for a set amount of $$. The good landlords will exit the business, and you'll only have slums.
- codedokode 7y agoBut there are different houses. Typically the most expensive are those located in the center of a big city with good transportation access. Do such apartments need price regulation? Poor people could live somewhere further from center where the prices are more affordable. Otherwise you make those nicely located apartments unavailable for other people who are ready to pay more.
- mafribe 7y agogoverment build housing Berlin government is not building housing in meaningful quantities to keep up with demand. You can look at BER (the airport that was supposed to open in 2012) to get an appreciation for how dysfunctional Berlin's regional government is. Berlin's NIMBY population is also to blame, they voted against developing former Tempelhof airport [1]. It would have been easy to erect dwellings for > 10k people there. The rent-freeze is populist political action to cover up government inability, and redirect anger away from the root cause of the problem (Berlin's government) towards scapegoats. Freezing rent will not create a single new dwelling, indeed it will reduce incentives from building property. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksentscheid_zum_Tempelhofer_Feld_in_Berlin https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksentscheid_zum_Tempelhofer...
- bpfrh 7y agoNever said they where just that it is the best solution. And I said I live in austria, where the goverment did exactly that very sucessfully.