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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST WAY TO SOLVE THE HOUSING PROBLEM? | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
341 views 2 upvotes Made by Swaggermemnon 2 years ago in The_Think_Tank
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0 ups, 2y,
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Stop the government from putting their nose in everything and take away the low interest rates.
1 up, 2y,
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Surely that makes housing more expensive
0 ups, 2y,
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No actually. The reason why the housing market is so crazy right now is because when the government introduced low interest rates, people went crazy and started to buy houses. The thing about that though is that, because of a mix of issues, there is low inventory and high demand. Low inventory and high demand is the perfect concoction to prices skyrocketing.
1 up, 2y,
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But surely the solution, instead of just decreasing demand, would include increasing inventory
0 ups, 2y,
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Yes, but that’s easier said than done. Problems such as the lumber shortage, metal shortage, worker shortage, etc
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Well, if instead of building single-family detached homes, we built denser urban housing, like this, we could house many more people for fewer resources
0 ups, 2y,
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What if people don’t want to live in a tiny ass apartment with 1-2 kids?
1 up, 2y
There are not many places in the developed world where you have the choice between a single family home in the suburbs or a steel box in the sky. Those buildings up there often look like this on the inside. They are places where people can live densely, but not uncomfortably. They are rarely small, only if you want a small apartment because you don't have kids.
Can I just add that both pictures here are in Berlin, where land is pretty expensive. You can find similar situations in Paris, Barcelona, Hamburg, Prague, etc. It is only in London, where land can cost between 2 and 5 times more than LA, Moscow, where land can cost even more, where there are fewer mid-rises, but there are still many of them. Not suburbs doesn't have to mean tiny apartment by a long stretch
0 ups, 2y
Create more compact, affordable houses solves space and money
0 ups, 12mo
Lower immigration rates.
0 ups, 2y,
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If you had the room (such as a guest room that no one uses) use it for something productive such as a grandma or grandpa who lives in a retirement home.
0 ups, 2y,
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But do people want to share their house with a senior citizen (Or any stranger)
0 ups, 2y,
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It would be their own grandma or grandpa, not some random stranger
0 ups, 2y,
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But how many people want that, and it doesn't solve the problem of a lack of new housing and broke cities
0 ups, 2y
Fair. I got nothing to back mine up then
0 ups, 2y,
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Theres more houses the homeless ppl f**k the landlords
1 up, 2y,
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Sorry, what?
0 ups, 2y,
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There are more houses than homeless ppl
0 ups, 2y
But not more houses than people
0 ups, 2y
Stop importing people when the people who already live there don't have enough houses already. unless there's some other agenda...
0 ups, 2y,
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1.) Remove unnecessary housing regulations.
2.) Make the zoning codes less extreme (get rid of single-family housing zoning)
3.) Introduce a tax on the unimproved value of land. (the higher the better)
4.) Profit
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Hey where's posts on the Crusader navy stream? Besides mine
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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST WAY TO SOLVE THE HOUSING PROBLEM?