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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by drb91 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:44PM (#19804499)
Electoralism, ideally. Traditionally, removing landlords has been very violent, and I would like to avoid that. The US guarantees market value for eminent domain, which is a sweet deal compared to, say, what’s happening in Berlin right now.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by dredmorbius on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:10AM (#19804635)
I'm not familiar with the term.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by drb91 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:39AM (#19805332)
It generally means working for change through elections both through electing representatives and plebiscites.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by dredmorbius on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:08AM (#19805494)
The tendency of existing property-asset-wealth-power dynamics makes this at best difficult. See e.g., California Prop. 13.

Wedging that initiative is a very uphill battle.

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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by drb91 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:26AM (#19808861)
Agreed.
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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by dredmorbius on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:35PM (#19820426)
I wouldn't mind seeing the change, to be clear. Engineering it is the problem.
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