Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Finland only has approximately 1000 willfully homeless people. I’d call that solving the crisis.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They also have a relatively small monocultural population and really cold winters.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      True, but they could just decide to ignore homeless people like most of the US and other capitalist countries have, but they didn’t.

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    • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How does having a monocultural population make housing easier?

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As a Finn, please stop talking about us as some kind of utopia. We haven’t solved shit and our government is infested with fascists. I’m preeetty sure there are a lot more than 1000 out there, most of them drug addicts and immigrants.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You still have better educational system.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But Finland only has like 2000 people. /s

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s good to hear, although it’s kinda beyond the scope of my question. I’m asking more about how to stop prices rising when they’ve suddenly started quickly rising and people don’t know why.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah I was going to say Finland. Their public housing system should be an example for other nations to follow.

    They won’t, of course…

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• xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What specific policies should I be demanding of our politicians to make housing affordable again?

  1. Ban corporate ownership and excessive individual ownership (ex: > 10) of homes.
  2. Remove most barriers to building lots of new and higher density housing (ex: four-story multi-unit buildings) except legitimate safety and ecological concerns.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Free

    Social

    Housing

    Stop making it more complicated

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    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh, I agree if you’re talking about addressing homelessness. That makes sense. If you’re advocating free social housing for every single person in the country, I’m not sure how that could be done or if it’s ever been done anywhere ever? I would be curious to hear about possible solutions though.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In my own Portugal, which is a very turistic country and also towards the bottom of the GDP-per-capita scale in the EU, things that would likely work very well would also be:

    • Crack down on AirBnB
    • Forbid ownership for non-residents.

    Portugal currently has a massive house inflation problem (extra massive because of how low average incomes are) and a lot of it has to do with residential housing being removed from the housing market and turned into short term turist lets (for example, over 10% of housing in Lisbon has been turned into AirBnB lets) and foreign investors (not just big companies but also individuals, such as well off pensioneers from places like France) pulling prices up by being far less price sensitive than the locals.

    Having lived in both Britain and Portugal during housing bubbles, what I’ve observed was that the politicians themselves purposefully inflate those bubbles, partly because they themselves are part of the upper middle class or even above (especially in the UK) who can afford to and have Realestate “investments” and hence stand to gain personally (as do their mates) from Realestate prices going up and partly because the way Official GDP (which is supposedly the Real GDP, which has Inflation effects removed) is calculated nowadays means that house price inflation appears as GDP “growth” since the effects of house price increases come in via the “inputted rent” mechanism but the Inflation Indexes used to create that GDP do not include house price inflation, so by sacrificing the lives of many if not most people in the country (especially the young, for example the average age for them to leave their parent’s home in Portugal is now above 34 years old and at this point half of all University graduates leave the country as soon as they graduate) they both enrich themselves and can harp in the news all about how they made the GDP go up.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I see, yes I definitely agree that AirBnB is part of the problem (it’s happening too here in Prague), although I think it can’t be the main cause because the price rise is also being felt in other parts of the country where there are practically no tourists…

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    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Crack down on AirBnB Forbid ownership for non-residents.

      Ah, yes, I forgot to mention AirBnB! Those are both good calls.

      The AirBnb issue is a little complicated because I’ve seen some good arguments that it can help people afford to keep their homes. But I think that could easily be addressed by a single, simple rule: you are only allowed to rent your primary residence as determined by tax records.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Massachusetts has a regional transit system, and just used that to mandate transit oriented development for all towns and cities served. It requires they zone higher density housing “as of right” within half a mile of transit. I have high hopes for that, but it will take decades and we’re starting at such a high cost of living.

    However we also have the problem of a stagnant population and very little room for new development. It’s infill and replacement housing so will be even slower

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    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good to hear about any moves in the right direction anywhere.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think money should be invested into investigating ways to retrofit the current urban sprawl neigborhoods to make them higher density.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ban corporate ownership and excessive individual ownership (ex: > 10) of homes.

    This is also what my knee jerk reaction would be. Do you know if it’s actually been done an any country, and whether it worked?

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    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t know, and based on a quick search, it doesn’t appear that it’s been done. California is currently working on a law to limit corporate ownership to 1,000 homes, lol.

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• sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Austria has, with widespread high quality public housing. theguardian.com/…/the-social-housing-secret-how-v…

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    the increased housing supply has kept private rents very affordable too.

    This is very good. Do you know if Austria had an Ireland-style house price problem before they did this (ie. would it halt the crisis in Ireland now), or is it more that it just prevented the crisis we see in surrounding countries from happening in Austria in the first place?

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    • ECB@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They’ve been building big public housing since the 1920s. I live next to a lot of it and it’s quite high quality and really pleasant.

      Lots of cities/countries has massive public housing (the UK being a great example post WW2) but Vienna is more of an exception in that they didn’t follow the trend in the 70s-90s of privatization and stopping investment (although it did slow down at one point).

      They were the same way about their tram system, where they kept it rather than ripping it out like most places. Now everyone else wishes they so had a tram network or is trying to rebuild one.

      That being said, rents are rising here too, but they are much more reasonable to begin with. I was living in London previously, and now we spend about 30-40% less for a place over twice the size and in a nicer location. Plus finding a place was muuuuuch easier, since it’s noticeably less competitive.

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    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “before they did this” for Vienna is around WW1, which was a very different time :/

      I am not very familiar with housing crises in other countries. I have lived in Vienna my whole life and now live in an apartment I own. This was possible to afford for me (a single man then in his mid-20s working as a software engineer) with a bank loan and some financial support from my family; I am not sure if it would still be possible nowadays.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Vienna has 50% public housing and as a result basically no homeless population.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Japan has.

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  • fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Japan is an outlier for numerous reasons, the biggest of which is that housing value there decreases over time (without going into the causes, the result is a feedback loop where housing isn’t built to last, so it depreciates like other semi-short-lived products, such as cars). This isn’t something the government planned, it came about naturally. So I wouldn’t say they’ve “solved” housing so much as their situation has made it a non-issue.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Japan also has longtime low population growth due to a mixture of nationalist anti-immigration and just generally low birthrates.

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is both false and true. Japan has a few things happening that are keeping rates lower, but the primary thing keeping costs low in Japan is the fact that the units are tiny. I’m not talking a little on the small side, I’m talking 200 square feet or less per person in a family home. No yards either.

    If you compare Japan to the dwelling sizes of other nations, it’s just as bad or worse per square foot.

    The end goal for solving housing should not be to make the rooms as small as possible. Especially in countries where land space isn’t the limiting factor.

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    • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean there are a ton of efficiencies to be gained with using communal resources.

      Why can’t a bunch of people share a park rather than needing their own back yard?

      Not saying it shouldn’t be an option, but the American obsession with detached housing at the cost of higher density housing is a major contributor to insane housing costs.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      By making the rooms smaller you’re just kicking the can down the road. Eventually the price inflation will catch up and even those shoeboxes will cost a fortune.

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    • FindME@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The housing I remember in Japan was the coffin box. A little space long enough for you to lie down in, with a small cubby for items. I think it was about 30 sq. ft. and maybe 90 cu. ft.

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• rthomas6@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What specific policies should I be demanding of our politicians to make housing affordable again?

  The answer is Georgism combined with no zoning, but people aren’t ready to hear about that yet.

  By Georgism I mean a very high tax 80+%) on the unimproved value of land. It prevents land speculation and returns the value of the land to the public. Houses would be incredibly cheap, because you couldn’t make money by merely owning land. The only reason to own a house would be to live in it, or to provide a true service for people who would actually prefer to rent.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This guy sees the cat

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I was impressed with Singapore when i was there a while back: en.wikipedia.org/…/Housing_and_Development_Board

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yea, the technique of the government simply owning all the land and doing all the development does work. It just can’t really be applied to any western country without a massive revolt when they confiscate all the land from private owners. The government could never afford to pay for all of it, so it would have to be seized without payment.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Downtown Los Angeles has a high rise that was abandoned by the owner/builder. It’s covered in graffiti. They could start there.

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    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You don’t need to seize it, just tax it enough that land ownership is no longer profitable

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Also, hasn’t it been demonstrated that the government having rein over 100% of a resource leads to massively clumsy solutions? I’m surprised it hasn’t impeded Singapore’s renowned efficiency.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fascinating. I didn’t expect a country known for neoliberalism like Singapore to have fully nationalised land (haven’t read the whole wiki article admittedly)

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• Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I suppose it depends on how you’d define “solved”. If we’re talking about basically eliminating homelessness, Cuba has done immense work in that regard. Say what you will about the Cuban government, but Cuba has a near-zero homeless population because the government has built a ton of housing and caps rent at 10% of individual income in that state-owned housing. Cuba is also a country with a tradition of multi-generational extended family homes, so there’s a greater chance that you’d be able to move in with a family member if you fell on hard times. Home ownership rate is around 85% compared to 65% in the US. All of this is nothing new, though, so it’s hard to say if it’s the answer to current issues of housing that’s largely driven by corporate greed, but it certainly sounds like it couldn’t hurt. Granted, I’ve seen people give examples of homes that are rather small and spartan, where the walls are made of bare cinderblock and generally aren’t very pretty, but that’s way better than being homeless even if some of the housing isn’t as nice as others. I’ve also examples of state-owned housing lived in by the same kinds of people, but are really quite nice as well. Whether the US government would ever do this, though, seems unlikely. Not at the scale we’d need and not for so cheap, anyway, especially not with Trump coming to office. I can’t really speak for the governments of other countries, however, and I’m no expert on Cuba either, so I could have gotten some things wrong. The US embargo to Cuba since the 90s also means that Cuba has had a more difficult time procuring building materials for the low-cost housing that’s helped so many, which has led to an increase in size and number for those extended family homes over the years.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah. I was in Cuba recently. A lot of poverty but very safe (in Havana at least, where I was. Can’t speak to the rest but I’m told it’s similar). Nobody sleeping in the streets. People were fed, though with very limited choices and portion.

    Then you look at some cities in the USA, the richest country on earth and there’s people living in the streets, begging for food. You feel unsafe waiting down the street. Tons of desperation and even those with housing feel like they’re walking a tightrope.

    Not saying Cuba’s situation is “better”, it’s definitely nuanced though. And we should really see what Cuba could do if the US would stop trying to cripple it as it has for to many decades. It’s unjustifiable and disgusting.

    🇨🇺♥️

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You make a very important point about life which I realized recently: that things are not necessarily better/worse, just ‘different’.

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• tisktisk@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Would the ruling class want this problem solved if it's the only commodity that can't be produced?

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• uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, USSR.

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  • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I wonder what the USSR would look like today if it still existed. Probably not good.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Better than Putin Russia, that for sure.

      I think it would look like “better EU”.

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    • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’d look exactly like Russia but bigger. Same corruption, same authoritarianism, same human rights abuse, same power imbalance etc.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think China is doing something funky, but it’s hard to get reliable information about that country

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed. We are sorely missing an honest and reliable source of news about China.

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  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Take what I say with a big grain of salt because I’m just an onlooker, but from what I’ve heard housing is incredibly unaffordable in the desireable cities like Beijing and Shanghai, like $600000 for a 2bdrm when the median salary is $20000. It’s a speculative investment whose bubble has burst but prices are still super inflated.

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• CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Singapore HBD.

  theguardian.com/…/how-do-you-solve-a-housing-cris…

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  China also has a massive homelessness problem, so it’s definitely not a “pan-Western bloc” thing. This is despite China executing every landlord and building enough homes, turns out people get assigned to a home in a region where they don’t actually live or work…

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• magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I live in the United States, and as I understand it the housing crisis is caused by several factors.

  1. The lowest level of zoning is typically residential single family. This means small scale owners and developers cannot increase supply by taking a house and adding to it. Either by adding extensions, subletting, or even building a mini-apartment building. To add to this, US regulations require apartment units to have access to 2 staircases, in the event of a fire. This is good fore safety, but greatly restricts style of apartments to hotel styles, and increases costs, so smaller apartments don’t make as much sense. This requirement should be able to be waved in the case of fire resistant building materials.

  2. Speculative land owning. Some property owners simply sit on properties in developing areas, waiting for its price to increase, and since tax is based on the value of the total property (land+building), a decaying building reduces the cost of owning that land. To fix this, we should be taxing the value of the land instead, punishing speculators, while incentivising people to improve their land (by building housing).

  3. Overuse of cars. Even when places want to expand housing, the complete and utter reliance on cars as transportation in the US leads to backlash for increasing housing, as the perception is that it will increase traffic. To combat this cities need to rethink their transportation strategies to radically increase things like bus and bike lanes. Even when cities do have buses, the strategy funded by the federal government is abysmal. For example instead of running buses that can hold 15 passengers and run every 15 mins, cities will instead run buses that can hold 50 people every hour, and so these buses run mostly empty with 2-3 passengers.

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  • hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    By “resistance” you mean “rich people and their money, along with the laws that have kept them rich”

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    • magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      While yes, the rich are the main problem, the bulk of resistance is the middle class. They don’t want to see the value of their property go down, or see increased traffic. Even though the suggested policy changes would help them too! The brainwashing is strong among people, not just the rich.

      It’s also hard, because to make meaningful changes, you need progress in at least 2 of these areas at the same time, which means you need to get people and politicians to agree on how to fix the problem!

      I see many people blaming corporate ownership as a problem, and in our current system is it is. But implementing my proposed changes would make it unpalatable for exploitive corporations, without needing to explicitly ban them!

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Crises are going to continue being crises as long as the wealth inequality of people worldwide continues increasing.

  Think of it like this. There’s a finite amount of money in the world. Right?

  The wealth of billionaires has doubled in the last few years. That money came from somewhere. Still with me?

  Ok, so… if the wealth of the wealthiest people has doubled, that amount of money they gained was previously held by the less wealthy, but it has now been consolidated into the wealthier people’s bank accounts.

  So. How do we solve the housing crisis (or any crisis)? Step 1 has to be to undo the consolidation of wealth. Solving crises without addressing the consolidation of wealth is a pipe dream.

  Feel free to hunt for legal mechanisms for achieving that. But I think you’ll find there are institutions and propaganda preventing those mechanisms from being effective.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  China has essentially zero homeless iirc

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  • Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That depends on if you consider the migrant workers living in encampments as homeless or not

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Such is the path of decommunization. Most post-soviet countries have or will experience something similar as capitalists take the housing market for profit.

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZpLiJdIGbs

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ooh I watched this when it was released. So essentially vast municipal ownership. Definitely something I can get behind but it takes decades.

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    • DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Society doesn’t change overnight

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• mke_geek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Look at places in the U.S. who have built a lot more housing – rents and housing prices have gone down.

  1. Relax/change zoning requirements
  2. Give subsidies to developers for affordable housing

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  • BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s a bunch of available housing in my area, but it’s just super expensive. I guess building more might work. My only concern is I only see larger 3+ BR housing or shared housing behind built. The days is affordable 1 to 2 bedroom houses are over. If you want something smaller, you are stuck with condo and high HOAs. Personally, I think they should bring back trailer parks and force ownership to be local.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Trailer parks have the same problem as suburbs of being super low density. They should stack the trailers on top of each other to save space.

      Edit: ok I guess what I’m suggesting are those builders’ prefabs

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    • mke_geek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not everyone wants to live in a trailer park.

      Smaller housing would need to be subsidized because it costs a lot to build relative to what it could be sold for.

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Japan with a very unique method

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh, that wonderful unique method.

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    • luckystarr@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In good locations: Houses depreciate in value over time because they are less safe in the event of an earthquake than newer houses.

      In bad locations: just take the house, everybody else left this town anyways.

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• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Vienna is not as good a situation as it may look. Their public housing stock is only great if you can’t get into it. There are waitlists years long, and you have to live in the city already to be eligible to get on the waitlist. Private housing is still expensive.

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• 000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People are not ready to hear this, but the problem is that “Housing” is being treated as a market, not a basic human right. As long as the governments are full of homeowners who will lose a lot of money if the house prices go down as a result of abundant housing, the problem will keep getting worse.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve always read that Japan seems to always be ahead of this issue due to its laws.

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  • SuperApples@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s mostly supply and demand. In Tokyo and Osaka / satellite cities, prices are going up, everywhere else they are dirt cheap.

    However, in urban areas prices still aren’t as crazy unaffordable as you may think, because Japan has a very narrow wage gap (everyone in Japan thinks they are middle class, and their not wrong compared to other countries).

    Another thing that makes Japan different to other housing markets, and is affected by the laws, is earthquake concerns. What other countries would call ‘established’ dwellings, they call ‘second hand’. Laws are updated every ten years or so that mean newer dwellings are much safer than older ones. Knockdown/rebuild is so common that there is competitive prices, as there’s plenty of builders to choose from. The builders are also very efficient, and apart from safety law, regulations are low (you can build whatever you like, so long as it’s robust), so labour costs are much lower compared to other countries.

    If you go on Suumo.jp you’ll find plenty of very affordable houses, even in good areas/good rail links, but it’s because they don’t expect anyone will live in the house as-is - the buyer will most likely “reform” it (massive rennovation) or replace.

    The state of the Japanese housing market is due mostly to cultural/economic/low immigration. If you want a policy solution other high-income countries can use to solve housing issues, the state-capitalism solution of the Singapore HDB is the best model I’ve come across. Second would probably be Vienna’s focus on social housing.

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    • sircac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you kind stranger, that was a nice and interesting review!

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    • s_s@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Japan also has a population in decline.

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  • weirdboy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Home prices in metro areas are riding steadily. In many rural areas they have fallen dramatically due to a combination of migration to cities and overall declining population.

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