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Solving the housing crisis
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Mass produced shipping container housing might not be a bad idea though if governments can fund it. As long as they have consistent design requirements factored in (electricity, water, and sewage hookups), a place to set up that hasn't been NIMBY'd, and offered free to the people, I'd be all for it.
Let's end the housing crisis. Let's end homelessness. It isn't impossible.
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Is that photo real ? Which place and country is that ?
Columbus, Ohio believe it or not. Deadly housing, excellent internet.
Lol that's the "stacks" from ready player one.
Which takes place in? Say it with me, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Crazy but interesting.
We have houses already. We have enough houses to house everyone, it's just not profitable to do so.
I live in an an area with a lot of empty houses. A lot of those houses are not fit for human habitation. Someone dies, the house gets tied up in probate, the kids don't want to live in the area--nor do most other people--and so the house that was already in disrepair degrades more. And, TBH, moving homeless people to rural areas that have a lot of abandoned homes would make it harder for them to access social services.
Yeah, we have the houses. Just not where the homeless people are.
Do you not know that there is enough housing already? The issue is that housing is an investment object, and giving the people homes isn’t profitable. So a lot of housing goes unused to keep prices high and the investment profitable