Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
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Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
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Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#2IMO... one of the most important benchmarks for judging the effectiveness of a government is the cost of housing. Cheap and basic housing is so key for economic well-being. I would love to see very basic, small, apartments created by governments on a mass level to try to overcome the current situation. Like persistently have a department of government just building to meet needed demands in economic centers.
What other benchmarks would you throw out there if you were going to grade gov effectiveness?
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#3IMO... one of the most important benchmarks for judging the effectiveness of a government is the cost of housing. Cheap and basic housing is so key for economic well-being. I would love to see very basic, small, apartments created by governments on a mass level to try to overcome the current situation. Like persistently have a department of government just building to meet needed demands in economic centers. What oth…
Life expectancy, starvation rates, literacy rates
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#4It always comes down to we don’t build houses fast enough. Why?
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#5We had a chance to defuse the housing crisis with remote work and we blew it.
Opportunities are concentrated and building in concentrated areas is inherently hard. We still don’t know how to scale mega cities fast while still operating them at capacity.
So the problem will not go away anytime soon.
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#6Over the last 50-70 years the UK made the choice to stop building social housing and to sell off the existing stock with aggressive government subsidies.
Complaining now is a bit like complaining there's no milk after you sold the dairy farm to build a casino.
I read TFA but I'm not seeing anything but useless outrage that would have been better placed 20-30 years ago
I became a first time property owner at 36 and it took a top 2-3% percentile income + my partners more median salary to do it on the outskirts of London
My mortgage runs until I'm 70 and I, like most owners now, are entirely dependent on the housing casino game continuing. If houses ever return to good affordability I'm screwed.
I have to refinance every 5 years, because that's the game in the UK, so if rates spike I'm also screwed.
Everyone in UK housing, owner or rented, is screwed and it's been this way for decades.
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#7Hug of death?
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#8IMO... one of the most important benchmarks for judging the effectiveness of a government is the cost of housing. Cheap and basic housing is so key for economic well-being. I would love to see very basic, small, apartments created by governments on a mass level to try to overcome the current situation. Like persistently have a department of government just building to meet needed demands in economic centers. What oth…
Its kinda funny you mention this because a lot of communist countries did pretty much this with high rise apartments. They're still there too.
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#9It always comes down to we don’t build houses fast enough. Why?
Because it's the explanation that doesn't require the rich and powerful to change their behaviour.
Re: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse
#10It always comes down to we don’t build houses fast enough. Why?
The population simply doesn't grow once and stop.