Here is a crazy idea: let's build big and ugly apartment blocks with tax money. The emphasis should be placed on the "ugly" bit. They should be a place where so

Here is a crazy idea: let's build big and ugly apartment blocks with tax money. The emphasis should be placed on the "ugly" bit. They should be a place where someone with taste would never want to live. They should still include all the basics (heating, plumbing etc) This will make it really hard for these places to become investment vehicles. The State could even just straight up sell them, no priority list needed. The final price would necessarily be low, and the people buying would do so because they need to, not because they need a place to park their money There could be a competition to "design the ugliest, fully functional tower". There are plenty of concepts readily available (brutalism, etc). Now that I think of it, I've already seen this. This is Gypsyism 101: Trash your neighborhood, cherish your home. At last we can all see that they were on to something *Please don't take offense at my Gypsy comment; I merely wish I was Gypsy myself, that's all