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To efficiently live in cities, many large public works have historically been completed, for example: - Cities across the world built thorough sewage systems,
by DrNosferatu 2y ago
To efficiently live in cities, many large public works have historically been completed, for example:
- Cities across the world built thorough sewage systems, preventing the need for private citizens to empty their litter buckets out the window – a large river in Chicago was even reversed!
- Cities across the world built mass transit networks, enabling citizens to move around efficiently without relying solely on private vehicles.
- Cities across the world should build affordable housing networks, as Vienna did. This way, citizens don't have to fall victim to the exploitation of speculators and distortions of the supposedly fair market.
Public affordable housing is a necessary infrastructure, just like sewers and transit, to create livable cities for all residents.
- hiatus 2y ago> Public affordable housing is a necessary infrastructure, just like sewers and transit, to create livable cities for all residents. How do residents, by definition people who already reside there, benefit from public affordable housing?
- DrNosferatu 2y agoIf you’re renting, you would stop spending such a large part of your income in rent. If you’re a resident that already owns their home, and has absolutely no unfulfilled housing needs, you will benefit from a more prosperous society with less people struggling and more equality - and that’s a positive on its own right. (along with its positive knock-on effects) In fact, it’s the very goal this measure aims to achieve.