Yes. The ability to have a place to live should be a basic human right and therefore be affordable.
If that means the government* subsidises it for the low income families (as in owns them and rents them at below market value), so be it.
We used to have “council houses” in the UK for exactly this purpose, but in the 70s, Thatcher came up with a “right to buy” (at a decent discount) and then made two mistakes - there were no restrictions after buying to stop you selling to anyone else, and there was no building of replacement stock after they were sold. So the result 50 years later is that there are nowhere near enough council houses any more, and a lot of the old ones are privately owned and being rented out at market rates, which are (depending on the area) very expensive.
*local or national, I don’t really care which
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
The community should have ownership of whatever rentals are necessary and it should be not for profit.
enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How is “the community” defined and how is this ownership managed?
GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Public housing is not a novel concept.
enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No sheet.
Ok, so you want all housing to be publicly owned? That would be interesting…