Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
China has essentially zero homeless iirc
researchgate.net/…/340706113_Homelessness_and_the…
China has a roughly 20% migrant worker population living in notably unsanitary conditions who do not own their homes. This is a direct result of their economic policy.
They have a massive homeless population. It just looks different than in other parts of the world.
I will take your word for it for now but will definitely be doing sone research on this. I should know more about china than I do right now
This is why I linked a published academic paper on the matter. You don’t need to take my word for it.
I’ll be reading it when I am not drunk anymore, should have mentioned.
So do most people here in Czechia. We have had capitalism for 35 years and for the first 30 housing was quite affordable (with no large municipal sector). Something has happened within the last 5 years and I’d like to know if it’s the same thing as in other countries and how it can be reversed.
Such is the path of decommunization. Most post-soviet countries have or will experience something similar as capitalists take the housing market for profit.
I definitely do fear something like that happening. Still, how would you explain the 30 years under capitalism when it was working fine? Why didn’t the capitalists swoop in in year 1 (or 15)?
Capitalism hadn’t advanced towards late stage yet.
Your ideal time was always a transitory period. This end result is inevitable.
Even if you pass reforms now… that is only kicking the can into your children’s or grandchildren faces.
Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That depends on if you consider the migrant workers living in encampments as homeless or not
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I have no idea if China has those but I can tell you that america does. I’d still rather not have humans suffering on every street corner.