Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness

Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by dsfyu404ed on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:52AM (#22201613)

None of what you've described is a problem absent government micromanagement of what can and can't be done on said land (strict zoning, examples include SV). The government has stepped in in many markets and halted that "race to the bottom" that everyone seems to hate and $500/mo 2br apartments vanish with it.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by charlesu on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:08AM (#22201739)

Can you point to a developed country where the government doesn't micromanage land and housing is affordable and plentiful as a result? I can't think of any modern or historical examples. How does less zoning lead to affordable housing? What's the mechanism?

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by DuskStar on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:50AM (#22209136)

Japan? [0] Most construction is by-right, and housing is some of the cheapest in a developed nation. There are zones, but only 12 nationwide, and each only specifies a maximum use - this means if a location is zoned for industrial or dense commercial, you can still build apartments there. (Generally. It's not quite that simple, but still fits on a single poster [1] - you can't build stores, restaurants or schools in industrial for example)

0: https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...

1: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sV5ETXDs_8M/Ux-axBTuF2I/AAAAAAAAA...

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by yters on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:34AM (#22202476)

I guess most non developed countries? People just walk into the wilderness and plop down a free (money wise, not labor wise) house.

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