• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    I would like some houses without people. Having a little surplus is usually a good thing. So like if some houses become unlivable, we have houses for the suddenly unhoused people.

    • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creator
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      I guess they mean it from a sustainability perspective. Stop building homes that aren’t being used to house people, ie, stop building homes for speculators.

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      That part of things could be aimed a China. They have something like double the amount of housing their population needs. To someone in a country with out of control housing prices, that might sound like a good problem to have, but it’s still wasteful.

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    In Canada they say we have a housing supply problem. I think about that a lot on my morning drive to work as I drive by row after row of massive houses with nobody living in them.

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      You aren’t allowed you move out of a home unless someone else is moving in. We can all create a chain like hermit crabs or those organ donations to help find more completed solutions. You know, I was being facetious but this would actually be doable…

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        Most people buy with a mortgage, so that is functionally exactly the situation they are in. Most property transactions are part of a chain, and if any link in that chain fails, the entire thing, which can be many links long, comes to a screeching halt and possibly collapses.

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          We’re literally doing that in capitalist countries. If I want to break my lease without finding a subletter, it would cost 10% of the median annual income.

          • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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            Maybe Marx was right?

            The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, [administrator and worker, MBA and engineer, director and doctor, landlord and tenant], in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another…"

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    Where I like to ride bikes is a huge wildlife preserve, with giant houses in it that are only used for 2 weeks a year.