Housing has been destroyed by unrestrained capitalism. Capitalism without limits, without social seatbelts is a bad thing. I don’t care if this makes the pure

Housing has been destroyed by unrestrained capitalism. Capitalism without limits, without social seatbelts is a bad thing. I don’t care if this makes the pure capitalists shriek “COMMUNISM!”. In fact it’s not communism to have a society that has rules around housing, it’s healthy social democracy. Housing is a fundamental human need and houses should be owned by people and every single citizen who wants to own a house should be able to buy one within their local community. Teachers, clerks, garbage collectors, everyone. It used to be this way before housing turned into a real world monopoly game. Rich people - ie those who own one or more houses tend to be completely lacking in empathy for those who don’t own a house. And people who own houses tend to have lots of advice like “move somewhere cheaper further out”, but such advice is easy to give because they never have to take such worthless and insensitive advice. Singapore has 89% owner occupied housing. This should be the mission for any country that cares about its people. But modern governments don’t care about their people, they care about growth, and about making politicians and vested interests richer.