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Government should subsidize rent if they want to help people, not just stick it to landlords.
by seiferteric 6y ago
Government should subsidize rent if they want to help people, not just stick it to landlords.
- partiallypro 6y agoand...just make zoning laws not so dictated by real estate investors that benefit from rising property values and to allow more building of housing. Real estate brokers have so much power on local levels it makes Washington look clean.
- eru 6y agoBasically any kind of building is good for affordability. The big problem (in urban US) isn't that the wrong kind of people get to build, but that not enough building gets done. Berlin also doesn't build enough at the moment. I heard that Hamburg has done a better job recently of approving more construction.
- eru 6y agoThat's not a great idea either. Just hand them money without strings attached. (Though, the German government does subsidies poor people's rent already. It's called Wohngeld.)