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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41774241
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A lack of housing is not the problem most places. The problem is that housing shifted from being a place for people to live to a way for people to acquire “passive income”. Hell, the very design of housing changed in a noticeable way: houses shifted from being homes to being feature laden investment vehicles.
It’s all about the used backpack market here man!
I’m not really buying the no housing thing now. The thing is, it turned into a commodity. If you just build more, then those with all the money (because that gap is pretty damn vast nowadays) will just buy and hold and rent them
Wait till air comes next, or some stupid ass shit.
After the embarrassment of the last ten years, and the ongoing embarrassment until the fat orange child rapist dies, then I’d say getting a backpack and leaving the Nazied States of America is probably the best move.
Residential housing shouldn’t be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
A co-op could handle it without much problem.
Yeah, anything that prevents the financialisation of residential housing floats my boat. In Iceland we have big corpos selling each other houses at over market price to increase the average m^2 price in an area. It’s pretty bonkers.
That is not the consequence of enough housing. It’s from wealth hoarding.
IMO: do what Vienna is doing: state provided apartments and flats, competing with everyone else. Try price fixing now, corpos. If Vienna did not have this, it would be at the same level as other european metropolises.
Edit: typo
We have plenty of housing. The problem is its all tied up with money hoarders. There are several times the number of empty houses than there are homeless. If we got rid hedge fund scumbags ability to horde everything including single family dwellings it would go a long way toward fixing this inequity.
Obviously fake and misrepresented. The paint isn’t peeling off that van.
How about taxing owners of unoccupied homes?
No, it’s the consequences of capitalism.
There are over 15 million empty houses in America, over 5 million of those are in the 50 largest metropolitan areas of the US.
770,000 people were counted as houseless in 2024.
Sure not every house is in great condition, and not every house is in a major city - but there is surely enough that people could use to if not house everyone, at the very least make a huge dent in that figure. The issue is people cannot afford to buy them because housing is seen as an industry not a basic life need.
You know I see this figure a lot, but I wonder how many of these are actually liveable.
My grandfather’s old home is unoccupied, that’s because the roof entirely collapsed. The county refuses to remove it from the property taxes. Based on all available records it’s an unoccupied home, but it’s a total loss in reality.
Who knows, but you only need 5.13% to be in good condition to house everyone.
Oh yeah we certainly have that many homes ready to be occupied tomorrow
Precisely. This is extreme inequity. There are plenty of resources to go around.
The future was stolen.
Haha
I was just watching a YT travelogue of a US guy in his 50s (Gen X) who was travelling the world frugally with a backpack because he can’t afford rent in the US. He had some investments and spent less travelling then working and living in the US, so his investments have grown in the 3 yrs he’s done this.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNKV0CMgcVUiJNdA-JNlJA
Plent of US retirees in Cambodia for the same reaon, can’t afford the US anymore.
There is enough housing. It sits unoccupied and sometimes disrepair.
Occupy Homes
that did happen on various degree, only 1 incident in the west last years ago.
Yes, though also some are in such economically depressed areas that you can barely get a job.
Which is a concern, but can largely be mitigated by encouraging work-from-home jobs. If people are able to reliably WFH, (and COVID proved that many jobs can be done entirely from home), then the local job market doesn’t tend to matter as much.
We also need to organize for clean public transit; in the meantime, there’s often plenty in bustling areas, as well.
Lots of empty apartments are in luxury buildings right in the best parts of big cities.
Fully furnished too, just empty tax shelters to be traded back and forth by billionaires and their kids when they need cash.
We need to convince the desk staff and security in this buildings to help people squat in them indefinitely.
Knowing how poorly these employers tend to compensate the staff, they may be happy to accept roommates in the accommodations.
But a lot of them are in densely populated suburbs or cities, driven out by the artificially inflated rental costs. The owners would rather have a few units empty than lower the rent.
China is facing opposite problem
Another cyberpunk come true scenario that involves absolutely no cool cybernetics
