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by blentrop
696 days ago
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Three bigger issues I think is short time rentals; like Airbnb and the like, lowering the available housing for the rest of the population. Regulation on the amount of holiday rentals would aliviate some of the pressure on the market. Taxation on empty apartments, second house and higher as more properties a single entity can have. Housing should be seeing as a social right and not as an investment. Law should reflect that |
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Why should I be forced to pay for someone else's house?
How would you force the tenent to maintain it?
How would you control them to maintain the peace? The homeless in my family are so because they are too dangerous to have in any of our homes, and apparently that's a fairly common theme. As a social "right", it must be available to all, not just those down on their luck, or whatever virtue is appreciated by the ruling class.
Of course, there may be some places where government housing projects worked splendidly and economically efficiently, but that is surely the exception.
Edit: You can find other negative consequences of government-built housing, but I will leave with
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
and the chilling story near the beginning of _The Fifth Discipline_