Such an extremist take is difficult to implement in practice. A healthy rental market gives significant power to the potential renters. Key word: healthy.
Low income housing can get taken over by the state but that’s not the only section of the market. White collar workers have also seen an increase in their mobility, for example.
Edit: Wow, some people read this and must have thought I was in support of house scalpers. But I have been a renter most of my adult life, and see the benefits. I appreciated being protected by the law, I hated when I wasn’t. I saw the effects of both on the market and I am confident a healthy housing market not governed by scalpers is totally possible. Just often not the reality.
You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.
No workers in developed “democracies” have had any significant improvement in mobility for several decades. Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of omnipresent housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m taking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.
Such an extremist take is difficult to implement in practice. A healthy rental market gives significant power to the potential renters. Key word: healthy.
Low income housing can get taken over by the state but that’s not the only section of the market. White collar workers have also seen an increase in their mobility, for example.
Edit: Wow, some people read this and must have thought I was in support of house scalpers. But I have been a renter most of my adult life, and see the benefits. I appreciated being protected by the law, I hated when I wasn’t. I saw the effects of both on the market and I am confident a healthy housing market not governed by scalpers is totally possible. Just often not the reality.
You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.
No workers in developed “democracies” have had any significant improvement in mobility for several decades. Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of omnipresent housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m taking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.