Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by petra on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:49PM (#19802893)

Housing is such a big problem. And a collective thing.

The key to solving it is to make sure everyone is focused on affordable housing.

Once you got a impactful part of society focused on something else, for example extracting rent - you've lost.

That's why Germany managed to create a working, affordable housing system after ww2.

And that's why Israel, in it's early years, managed to do the same, and offer affordable housing to everyone,while working under dire economic situation.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by djakjxnanjak on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:33PM (#19803260)

I think the solution is clear. Legalize tall buildings. Requiring someone to own or rent thousands of square feet of land to get access to hundreds of square feet of housing is guaranteed to lead to shortages.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by thatfrenchguy on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:08PM (#19803515)

And abolish prop 13 in California and other tax pyramid schemes ? Especially for entities that are not people.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by r00fus on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:47PM (#19804144)

I wonder why even with a super majority, Dems still haven’t raised split-roll for removing prop13 for corporations.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by Ericson2314 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:22AM (#19804701)

A very good question!

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by zzzzzzzza on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:07PM (#19803903)

Land value taxes. What's better than legalizing tall buildings, is incentivizing tall buildings.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by grogenaut on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:15PM (#19803564)

correct me if I'm wrong but I heard it's very difficult to find any short term transitory housing in Germany, I had heard that short leases / rentals were 2 year terms. This makes it a lot harder to move into an area and decide where you want to live which in turn makes mobility more difficult.

However this info may be out of date / incorrect.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by thorwasdfasdf on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:06PM (#19803040)

we need housing to be affordable (for everyone), not affordable housing.

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