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The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.
- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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Don't be jealous. Be angry. This isn't revolutionary or anything, it's just proper policy. Rent is higher elswhere not by chance but by design.
Oh I'm definitely angry too. I've been angry for years about how ass backwards my country is. We ought to have done this sort of policy decades before I was even born.