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A comment on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out. Parent comment

Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by ahoy on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:54AM (#19453814)
We managed to solve the issue of "everyone needs water & electricity" by making them government services (or in some locales, private services required to service everyone). It's not a perfect system but it's certainly better than what we're doing with housing.
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Re:Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can... by geezerjay on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:19PM (#19456256)
> We managed to solve the issue of "everyone needs water & electricity" by making them government services (or in some locales, private services required to service everyone).

Private services are still not public services, and paying private companies to follkw public service contracts has nothing in common in providing a publix service through a public institution.

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