Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

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Et tu, Vault Boy (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by SeattleRain to c/housing_bubble_2

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The discussion I've talked about was in the context of an occupation of a university building standing empty for two years while many initiatives wanted the room. After 28 hours, the occupiers left because they convinced the university to let people use that space.

This might be different in the states but the city I live in is famous for building luxury housing that's used as an investment and stands empty while people sleep in the subway stations. The need for cheap housing is there, but these people have little money so the demand for expensive housing wins that might be used as second houses of the very rich or it really is empty and not used at all, just a future investment.

At some places, people will even leave houses empty to increase the market value of other houses, but that's not happening here according to the discussion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Easy step in the right direction is to tax vacant property. But there is no demand amount regimes whores for it and peasants can't agree it is the proper strategy here.

But as I said before, this will not resolve the issue. Just a low hanging fruit and an easy W for plebs that we can't have.

And even bigger point I am trying to make. If the owner class wants to keep important slave labours, no problem build housing, infrastructure and social services to match the population influx.

Again peasants cant even agree on this one either. So we get worst form both world lol