Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
by piva00 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:48AM
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Isn't this the same basic principle that drove American suburbia? Expand the outskirts with building houses on bigger plots of land and empty the city centers. It just seemed to have killed city centers in the US.
Granted that Finland has a very different culture (disclaimer: I live in Sweden) and we aren't in the 50s anymore to invest heavily on a car-centric society but incentivising people to move away from city centres can have unpredictable consequences 20-50 years down the line.
One of the major political parties here (Centre Party, the agrarian-liberal party) wants people to live outside of the cities. Finnish cities are so small that it's easy to commute from a place with plenty of cheap land and thus it's possible for most people to buy or build a house there if they want to.