Throwing the free market into the housing necedsity is a fine addition to housing - assuming no one is unhoused. Same thing with any kind of insurance. We should be covered by default then allow Cadillac insurance plans on top.
I’m even fine with social housing being the housing equivalent of government cheese. It’s not the best solution but it.is.a.solution. which we don’t have now.
Instead now we have the homeless shitting in the streets. And I don’t blame them. Society shit on them, seems like we could’ve seen this one coming.
Magiccupcake@startrek.website 1 year ago
If housing was true free market, demand would drive new construction.
But its not, developers are artificially constrained into building inefficient single family homes, or giant luxury condos due to zoning and other hindering regulations.
Removing these regulations would allow new upstarts to vastly undercut the current market leading to more affordable housing.