• celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    In Canada they say we have a housing supply problem. I think about that a lot on my morning drive to work as I drive by row after row of massive houses with nobody living in them.

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    I would like some houses without people. Having a little surplus is usually a good thing. So like if some houses become unlivable, we have houses for the suddenly unhoused people.

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      I guess they mean it from a sustainability perspective. Stop building homes that aren’t being used to house people, ie, stop building homes for speculators.

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      That part of things could be aimed a China. They have something like double the amount of housing their population needs. To someone in a country with out of control housing prices, that might sound like a good problem to have, but it’s still wasteful.

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      You aren’t allowed you move out of a home unless someone else is moving in. We can all create a chain like hermit crabs or those organ donations to help find more completed solutions. You know, I was being facetious but this would actually be doable…

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        Most people buy with a mortgage, so that is functionally exactly the situation they are in. Most property transactions are part of a chain, and if any link in that chain fails, the entire thing, which can be many links long, comes to a screeching halt and possibly collapses.

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          We’re literally doing that in capitalist countries. If I want to break my lease without finding a subletter, it would cost 10% of the median annual income.

          • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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            Maybe Marx was right?

            The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, [administrator and worker, MBA and engineer, director and doctor, landlord and tenant], in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another…"

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        Another reason to defend abortion access. GOP out, at every level!

        (If you aren’t in the US, still vote to shut conservatives out, every election. They can’t be trusted, they’ll steal your rights.)