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Re:If the Economy Is So Strong, Why Are Consumer Stocks Tank... by zelon88 on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:48PM (#37906376)
If we do that you'll have two social classes. You'll have the price fixed low income housing that looks like it belongs in a Command & Conquer game and you'll have the corporate owned HOAs that are just out of control expensive. Oh, and plenty of tent cities.
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Re:If the Economy Is So Strong, Why Are Consumer Stocks Tank... by zeroCalories on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:04PM (#37906610)
You don't need low income housing. Just make government housing at market rate. If you really want to be kind, offer it at maintenance cost. Even if housing prices don't fall(they probably will), they won't rise faster than inflation if the market is sufficiently flooded. Eventually wages will catch up to prices. Yes it will take a long time, but that's why we need to do it now. No. Twenty years ago.
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Re:If the Economy Is So Strong, Why Are Consumer Stocks Tank... by CapstanRoller on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:23AM (#37910930)
I'll take C&C barracks (a basic Quonset Hut) at this point, as long as I can own it and it's legally habitable. I don't care about aesthetics. In fact, something like that would be ideal as I could customize it completely.

Unfortunately those sorts of structures are banned by most municipalities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut

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Re:If the Economy Is So Strong, Why Are Consumer Stocks Tank... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:18AM (#37914547)
> If we do that you'll have two social classes. You'll have the price fixed low income housing that looks like it belongs in a Command & Conquer game

It does not have to be this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKudSeqHSJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DBKoWbtjE

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