Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.
When communist were forced on Poland by soviets in 1945 one of their tasks for the next decade (that continued until 1980 collapse) was to build houses and give it to people. Other tasks were less nice like killing opposition, but housing was indeed how they decided to spent the resources.
US could start a massive communal housing programm on federal budget. They chose not to.
We don’t even need to build housing. That’s the worst part.
We just need to outlaw landlords.
“But no one will purchase our valueable real estate and we lose money by keeping it!”
And what happens when you have a supply of housing that far exceeds demand? Well if it’s an actual functioning economy the cost of housing decreases. The ifs are doing a lot of fucking lifting in this idea though.
When communist were forced on Poland by soviets in 1945 one of their tasks for the next decade (that continued until 1980 collapse) was to build houses and give it to people. Other tasks were less nice like killing opposition, but housing was indeed how they decided to spent the resources.
US could start a massive communal housing programm on federal budget. They chose not to.
We don’t even need to build housing. That’s the worst part.
We just need to outlaw landlords.
“But no one will purchase our valueable real estate and we lose money by keeping it!”
And what happens when you have a supply of housing that far exceeds demand? Well if it’s an actual functioning economy the cost of housing decreases. The ifs are doing a lot of fucking lifting in this idea though.