Oh yeah we certainly have that many homes ready to be occupied tomorrow
Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing
Deceptichum@quokk.au 17 hours agoWho knows, but you only need 5.13% to be in good condition to house everyone.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
fort_burp@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
Plus getting them all up to code is huge job creation, so it’s win-win.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 hours ago
Also many people would volunteer to help restore these places for people’s use if it was actually a legal option.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
Maybe, but a local credit union could create the money as a loan and it gets spent into the economy for a socially necessary purpose, which, counter-intuitively, does much more good than volunteers (setting aside the idea that paid workers are more reliable than volunteers). Technical solutions for all our problems already exist, finding them is not the issue, the issue is the political will to enact these ideas, which is just not there as a result of class war (which imo has also created the conditions that you can’t find enough people with the time & money to volunteer for this size task). My 2c.