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It’s frustrating how there’s no way to say “anything people need should be provided free or at-cost” without sounding like a loony radical, but it’s true.
If businesses could figure out how to make you pay for the air you breathe, it would come in a variety of qualities and flavours, and I would have been banned from r/air long ago.
The profit incentive can barely even be trusted with stuff we don’t need. Never let necessities turn a profit.
I’m aware that I’m essentially calling for a global restructuring of society when I say this, and I’m used to the fact that it’s not likely to occur.
Glancing at the first numbers to come up in searches, it seems like there are about 3 Aussies for each residential dwelling currently in existence. It seems like there’s already about enough to share, if these weren’t unequally allocated. Just saying!
This might shock you but some people dont want to share a house.
The statistic you’re looking for is how many vacant houses there are. Spoiler: there’s not enough.
If there were, prices wouldn’t be what they are. Just saying!
Sidebar - I wish others wouldn’t downvote people I’m just trying to have a normal conversation with. Makes everything feel needlessly strained and rude. It always feels like people are crowding around trying to make simple disagreements into fights, doesn’t it?
Other than getting private equity out of housing (easy answers first, shadow banks shouldn’t own houses) it seems like we should be able to come up with a way to create a lot more highly basic housing at high speed and minimal cost, even if the housing was a bit brutalist it’d have a cooling effect on the cost of mid-range homes.
Of course, at some point we butt up against the fact that when your economic system treats real estate as an investment, you can’t also undermine that subtle class system without damaging your economy. At some point the way we do things just depends on a maximum sustainable amount of suffering to keep the markets ticking along.
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I just explained why everyone can’t have a free house though.