Comment on Rent is theft
Riverside@reddthat.com 2 days agoSource for the 7mn Khrushchevki? That number seems entirely too low. Maybe you’re not counting Brezhnevki? Because I remember figures of more than a million housing units being built yearly.
While “US becoming communist” is not achievable on the short term, “regulatory policy to improve rent under capitalism through reform” has even less of a background if you ask me. Like, housing is getting worse everywhere under capitalism, and better nowhere. What makes you think reformism is a more likely scenario?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The many recent examples of mucipalities and states passing regulatory policies to improve rent under capitalism are the primary one I’m using here.
I’m not, no - nor stalinski (not that those were all that prolific comparably though)
Riverside@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Can you tell me generally big examples of places where this has happened and things have gotten better? As a European, the only cases I know of are the Berlin referenda for rent caps and expropriation, and both have had no lasting effect because higher courts have sabotaged them and declared them illegal (I don’t understand how a referendum can be illegal).
Are you sure this is flat-area and doesn’t need to get multiplied by number of flats per building?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s a really specific request, but sure: Vancouver empty home tax California Tenant Rent Cap.
As far as I can tell this number is accurate, again if you can find a better (or more clear) source than what’s given on wikipedia I welcome it since this is a composite number pulled from housing reports in a primary language which I am illiterate in (and can only barely speak).