• Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip
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      How would it even work?

      Government builds a house

      Gives the keys to who?

      The everyone else would think its unfair

      Which countries do governments build houses, where a free market already exists? (And those houses arent for a select minority such as wheel chair users)

      • Which countries do governments build houses, where a free market already exists? (And those houses arent for a select minority such as wheel chair users)

        Pretend i’m speaking to you like you’re a child because i am

        Remember when the reddit propaganda about China was they’re building ghost cities because of, idk, making their gdp look better or some nonsense? I’m sure you saw that and believed in it. Well, ten years later people live in those buildings now. They were planned housing built around high speed rail hubs so you can walk there and go to either beijing or shenzhen in like 2 hours. There’s a reason china is literally like the only place in the world where housing is affordable and the cost has gone down.

        It literally happened right in front of your eyes but you believe it’s just impossible here. There’s even western dipshits crying about how this would affect the housing market- which is the real reason it WON’T happen here, not that it CAN’T. All the fucking landlords who’d get their lunch eaten if they had to compete with at-cost government rents and weren’t able to just charge whatever the fuck they want and increase rent every single year for no reason other than go fuck yourself

        Anyway, if you still don’t get it feel free to eat shit

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        Which countries do governments build houses, where a free market already exists?

        Most of them that have the capability? Never heard of social housing? Typical Amerikkkan brain.

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        Gives the keys to who?

        To a person or family who can’t afford housing

        The everyone else would think its unfair

        Only sociopaths would think that, and they need to fuck off

        Which countries do governments build houses, where a free market already exists?

        Most developed countries already do this, it’s called “social housing”

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          Most developed countries already do this, it’s called “social housing”

          Technically I believe the US does it as well. Just all funded so poorly they hit a very negligible portion of the people that need it.

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            Reeducation camps won’t be necessary. They will be mandatory for people like you.

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            People who cannot afford housing is a minority

            What? Are you living in the 80s??

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        Citizens can apply for housing similar to applying for an apartment, just publicly run and funded rather than for profit. Social housing already exists.