Housing Is a Labor Issue: Land owners are taking all the wage gains

Post by raziel2p » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 10:24 AM UTC

nelsonic wrote: post #17

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #13

This story is being repeated across countries and cities. It really is high time there is some serious regulation around home ownership, especially as an investment vehicle. I would even say this is an existential issue for our current civilizational model - the unaffordability of housing is contributing to demographic decline globally.

Agreed. What regulation would you propose?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 10:24 AM UTC

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #6

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

While I agree that landlords are vampires, that here is wrong: > But there is a stack of research a mile high that shows that the number one thing we need is a lot more housing supply There are millions of units vacant everywhere, be it the US [1] or Germany [2]. The last thing the world needs is more housing construction, especially with the insane CO2 footprint of anything involving concrete. The problem is that ru…

>The last thing the world needs is more housing construction, especially with the insane CO2 footprint of anything involving concrete. That self imposed limit is exactly what keeps prices high. Every city has some run down areas that serve no purpose but are wasted space and could be turned into housing. Also, as some others already said it, living in urban areas reduces your footprint versus living far away in the c…

Post by EGreg » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #13

This story is being repeated across countries and cities. It really is high time there is some serious regulation around home ownership, especially as an investment vehicle. I would even say this is an existential issue for our current civilizational model - the unaffordability of housing is contributing to demographic decline globally.

Post by pjc50 » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

bsder wrote: post #15

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

While I agree that landlords are vampires, that here is wrong: > But there is a stack of research a mile high that shows that the number one thing we need is a lot more housing supply There are millions of units vacant everywhere, be it the US [1] or Germany [2]. The last thing the world needs is more housing construction, especially with the insane CO2 footprint of anything involving concrete. The problem is that ru…

> The problem is that rural areas ("flyover states") have been left to rot The problem is that rural areas don't pay their way. Rural areas only exist at the charity of the cities funding them. If you want rural areas to thrive, you need to figure out how to make them economically viable . That means you need local production to be more cost effective than global production. A good start would be having universal hea…

Post by cpursley » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

xdennis wrote: post #9

The problem isn't land owners it's landlords. Renting should be illegal and anyone caught accepting rent should lose his property to the renter. Owning a lot of land/houses isn't really the problem. It's when you're not using them that's the problem. You should just sell and not leech on society by renting.