This is just a long-winded way to ask “how do we pay for it.” The answer is taxes. That’s always the answer.
Let’s call it 10 trillion total: 20m rental properties x x 500k average home price. If we allocated half annual military budget—400bn—to buying private rentals and making them social housing, it would take 25 years to get through the whole market.
The financial scale of the solution is not so large as to be insurmountable. The US government’s priorities simply lie elsewhere.
enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well yeah, taxes. But…
No, the American people’s priorities. And until that changes, we’re dead in the water