Re:How to make housing more affordable
by kennywinker on Saturday September 25, 2021 @04:54PM
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My point was that the political will to make large swaths of land public has existed in the past, and if people keep getting more and more desperate it'll happen again, hopefully not violently.
But ok back to your point: so market capitalism works - but in housing we haven't had markets because of gov interference. So what's an area where we have a free unconstrained market for a basic human necessity, that doesn't cause deep deep suffering?
Food, water, housing, heathcare, safety - these are things that when solved by "the market" necessarily exclude a small but significant portion of people. Market capitalism is the wrong tool for basic needs. Prove me wrong ;)
No one is saying let’s keep doing markets”. The article and many posts like mine are arguing that building new and more dense housing has been illegal in most of the US for decades, which has lead to a housing shortage. We should make it legal to build more housing, so that the market can build more housing.
I’m not wholly opposed to some public housing, but it needs to be carefully financed and well maintained.