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10% mandatory free is very very good idea. And no one can keep houses as investment. Yes that's also awesome idea. I don't get it why should we allow capitalist

10% mandatory free is very very good idea. And no one can keep houses as investment. Yes that's also awesome idea. I don't get it why should we allow capitalist forces to manipulate and act on fundamental necessities like housing, air, water, food (in India, the govt has been distributing practically free grains since we got freedom i think). I mean if you don't want to eat govt rationed grain then you can buy from free market but govt does gives dirt cheap rations to the poor. So these ideas are amazing. If I don't want to live in my parents' house then it should return to the govt pool. I should not have the right to sell it because why should I take someone else's right. I often think of creating a free housing for the destitute from one of my parents property. What's stopping me is that police and judiciary and politicians in India love to harass an innocent person till eternity. What if someone dies at my facility because I only want to provide free sleeping space to 20 people and not take daily care of the dwellers. Police also frowns upon housing unknown people on your property. I don't understand the logic. But police wants them to be destitute rather than they be some shady person living in your facility. So who has time for doing all the due diligence for the destitutes because in India police work and court proceedings never never end. My fatherbis fighting a court case regarding that property since 35 years and still no end in sight

sokoloff 1mo ago
10% mandatory free doesn’t seem that useful in terms of household formation. Suppose there are 200 million houses. Mathematically, 20 million of those houses must be maintained as free. If we’re right at the limit of 180 million occupied, I still can’t form a new household and move into any of the 20 million available homes, because that would violate the 10% rule. Now, if instead I want to take an open plot and build a house, do I have to build ten in order to occupy one, so the 10% rule can be complied with? Suppose a couple wants to separate and there are exactly 20 million vacant houses: “sorry, per the law, nothing is available…”
- Guestmodinfo 1mo ago
  Mandatory housing doesn't means a 3 bedroom house always. It can also mean that if you are destitute, you get your own private room and a bed with common dining hall for the entire building. I have met destitutes in US also and they were scrambling to get 5dollar to get a roof over their heads for the night to escape the cold February winter. For a destitute person every bit counts and they can be helped by spending very little money by us. A lot of people are on the streets by choice like they cannot maintain a constant job or they have ADHD and they want to go to Austin for its music scene and in the meantime they are getting by busking for money. So govts can provide such people with simple but safe housing or better word be that roof over their heads every night. Different govts can develop this rudimentary but useful idea to serve their citizens. We hear some stories where families remain in constant fear of losing the roof over their heads while lots and lots of houses and buildings in India remain empty or are meagerly occupied. Lots of people are right away rejecting the idea but every idea has pros and cons and govts withtheir vast financial resources (printing fiat money which they do for oligarch friends) and administrative resources like police and construction departments can develop something by firstly working on a pilot project in a couple of towns and then tweaking the scheme as nuances become clear. India gives yearly gifts of 5 lakh crore rupees in tax benefits to the top oligarch friends. I'm sure universal housing for the entire world can be solved by India itself with this much money in one year itself

sokoloff 1mo ago

10% mandatory free doesn’t seem that useful in terms of household formation. Suppose there are 200 million houses. Mathematically, 20 million of those houses must be maintained as free. If we’re right at the limit of 180 million occupied, I still can’t form a new household and move into any of the 20 million available homes, because that would violate the 10% rule. Now, if instead I want to take an open plot and build a house, do I have to build ten in order to occupy one, so the 10% rule can be complied with? Suppose a couple wants to separate and there are exactly 20 million vacant houses: “sorry, per the law, nothing is available…”

Guestmodinfo 1mo ago
Mandatory housing doesn't means a 3 bedroom house always. It can also mean that if you are destitute, you get your own private room and a bed with common dining hall for the entire building. I have met destitutes in US also and they were scrambling to get 5dollar to get a roof over their heads for the night to escape the cold February winter. For a destitute person every bit counts and they can be helped by spending very little money by us. A lot of people are on the streets by choice like they cannot maintain a constant job or they have ADHD and they want to go to Austin for its music scene and in the meantime they are getting by busking for money. So govts can provide such people with simple but safe housing or better word be that roof over their heads every night. Different govts can develop this rudimentary but useful idea to serve their citizens. We hear some stories where families remain in constant fear of losing the roof over their heads while lots and lots of houses and buildings in India remain empty or are meagerly occupied. Lots of people are right away rejecting the idea but every idea has pros and cons and govts withtheir vast financial resources (printing fiat money which they do for oligarch friends) and administrative resources like police and construction departments can develop something by firstly working on a pilot project in a couple of towns and then tweaking the scheme as nuances become clear. India gives yearly gifts of 5 lakh crore rupees in tax benefits to the top oligarch friends. I'm sure universal housing for the entire world can be solved by India itself with this much money in one year itself