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Re:Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness by geysersam on Thursday August 31, 2023 @06:43PM (#37344567)
I agree we need to build more cheap housing. But one could also ask: why don't we already build more cheap housing? Probably the answer is that nobody's able to pay for it. Making people able to afford cheap housing creates a market for cheap housing makes builders build cheap housing.

But sure, cut out the middle man and let the public sector build good cheap housing.

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Re:Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness by jackvalentine on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:31AM (#37347166)
I don’t know what it looks like overseas, but in Australia a solid 20% of housing stock was built by governments right up until the 1980s when ‘the market’ was tasked with providing housing and governments withdrew.

We don’t build more cheap social housing entirely as a policy choice.

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Re:Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness by mcv on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:23AM (#37349874)
Expensive housing is more profitable than cheap housing. Cheap houses tend to get bought by real estate speculators looking to drive up the price of housing. I suspect that much of the housing scarcity is artificial.
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