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this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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I hate, hate, hate the phrase "housing reform". It's not the housing that needs reforming you fucks. We don't need to gut safety standards to the bone and kill even more people so the poor landleeches can make more money and escape responsibility, we don't need micro-homes made out of shipping containers, we don't need special home loans for minority business owners who own and operate a successful business for 3 years in an underprivileged community.
It's a way of smuggling in lowering the quality of life with ridiculously small living spaces that aren't adequately insulated or connected to utilities, lowering safety standards as in here, lowering already low accountability for slumlords. Anyone who utters this is an enemy of humanity.
Honestly. Who tf honestly believes "developers" would take the savings from a single stairwell per building and turn it into more housing? Anyone who's rented an apartment can tell you they'll just line their fat fucking pockets
It's not about cost savings, it has to do with the architecture and floorplanning that can be severely limited by these standards. It's a large enough effect that is worth discussing, but I am not well read enough to outline the whole situation here.