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The state does need to make houses to provide for lower paid people who do critical jobs.

• mordae 3y ago
  Lower paid... critical jobs... State. Hahaha. Can't we just ditch capitalism altogether? It can't even pay and provide housing to people who perform critical jobs. Or are we discussing building barracks for slaves?
• notahacker 3y ago
  Yep, and people who don't do critical jobs or earn much at all tend to want somewhere to live too (and subsidising their private sector housing costs in areas with housing shortages usually costs more in the long run) Not really discussing the slowdown of building and mass-selloff of council owned housing since 1979 is a curious omission from an otherwise detailed description of public policy on housing. Private sector housebuilders have different incentives from public authorities, and maximising the profit from a site need not mean maximising the number of available homes (especially not given Britons with purchasing power were the original suburbanites). Nor does it mean building on all the limited supply of local land suitable for development at once, when it can be released in tranches (homebuilders have several years worth of plots with planning permission for every home they build in a year)
• nradov 3y ago
  Which jobs are critical? What would happen if those people decided to take higher paid but less "critical" jobs?
  • foldr 3y ago
    NHS workers such as nurses and porters are the obvious example. Hospitals can't function without them, but they are paid very little.
  • intelVISA 3y ago
    If the UK is the same as the US then Agile shaman is mission critical.
• Detrytus 3y ago
  That doesn't make sense: if your job is indeed "critical" you have enough leverage to negotiate higher pay, don't you?