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Re:I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you d... by hakfoo on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:35PM (#34939681)
We have enough housing for the number of people we have.

What we have is a complete lack of top-down management to allocate it efficiently.

If we combined Soviet economics and modern Big Data, we could solve this easily-- mandate that economic engines are sited where housing gluts exist, and assign out housing to optimize things like average commute length.

Re:I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you d... by gwbrooks on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:02PM (#34940430)
> If we combined Soviet economics <<snip>>

I think I spotted the challenge.

Re:I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you d... by gomizari on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:37AM (#34958486)
That is indeed a challenge, but not an unsolvable one.