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Simple, comrade. 15 years you work on potato farm and trade ration-booklet for wood and drywall. You pay for and possibly build with your own two hands nice h
by notch656a 5y ago
Simple, comrade. 15 years you work on potato farm and trade ration-booklet for wood and drywall. You pay for and possibly build with your own two hands nice home for hard working fellow comrade to live in, and you ask in return they pay you some amount to help you recoup your investment.
After a couple years, nice family leaves, so you spend long time to find another nice family to fit into the house you worked hard to provide. Instead Kommisar come along, give house to homeless in name of proletariat. Social welfare bureau hold lottery, and the neighborhood violent drunk under the bridge is ecstatic his number came up, as he was very sad he no longer has home to beat wife in. Much vodka is drunk while copper piping is gutted and appliances scrapped to dealers in nearby Ossetia.
Sit back and cry: I work on potato farm for 15 years to build nice second home to house hard working families! Instead government create lottery and hands to drunk who destroys house in only 15 days. Decide to stop trying. Start drinking everyday. Become a drunk yourself, enter the lottery, now you gut houses of others to survive. Process repeats -- now all units look like Grozny in the late 90s.
Mission accomplished.
- selimthegrim 5y agoPlot twist - you call your Chechen friends from next raion over who take care of drunk guy and split the house with them.
- HWR_14 5y agoThe point is that, if you want to incentivize landlords to rent out places, this does this. Other people hear your story and rent it out to a responsible person instead of waiting for a "nice family". Or they auction it off in the time they have and pocket the money. Responsible people who don't rip up housing are sought after and pay a reasonable rental rate. People who buy and sit on property are taken out of the system. A new equilibrium is reached and most people take reasonable care of their rental properties they are given because they don't want to have to enter lotteries that will likely end them up in a slum. Homeless people end up in better than the street.
- selimthegrim 5y agoI’m not sure that was legal in USSR (private renting out) until well into perestroika
- HWR_14 5y agoThe USSR thing wasn't part of the conversation, and just is some "all government regulation is communism".
- djbebs 5y agoLandlord are already incentivised to do so, the reason they don't is because there are costs of doing it, which regulation magnifies