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Then the government will need to purchase the houses / apartments from the current owners so they still get a giant payday.

Then you’d still be paying rent, just to the government instead which will mostly go towards paying administrators that don’t care or do anything just like current landlords.

Unless you mean all social government owned housing should be free, and most private property should be government owned.

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Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Then the government will need to purchase the houses / apartments from the current owners

Expropriation can be carried out without purchase, and it has been done in several countries to the great benefit of the workers. No need to pay for the housing of the landlords, we can just take it at gunpoint.

Then you’d still be paying rent, just to the government instead which will mostly go towards paying administrators that don’t care or do anything just like current landlords

Who says the housing has to be centrally administered? Housing could absolutely be organized by local collectives in charge of the maintenance of the buildings after its construction, likely in the form of democratically elected councils. As an example, most access to housing in the USSR was through the work’s union, not through the central government.

Unless you mean all social government owned housing should be free

No, people should pay costs to maintain it. For example, rent in the USSR was about 3% of the monthly income. Seems much better than what I pay now!

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