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Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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This is something I'd wish the next government would do. Seriously how hard is it to build? Bust through the bullshit planning restrictions and build houses that people want to live in.
The house building companies already have vast amounts of land they own with planning permission in place. They restrict the amount of housing they build to artificially keep the prices high, if they build too many, the prices they could sell their houses for would drop, reducing profit. These are private companies and the government has little control over them. This is why every government for the last few generations has promised more houses and delivered nothing.
lol, they have an army, just send it in and nationalize the shit out of them. the government has as much control as it wants to have.
I'm all for nationalising infrastructure, including houses, but you would still have to compensate shareholders unfortunately. If we didn't (which is an option) the markets would react very badly and make Liz Truss seem like a genius.
only if you let them. why does the government have to allow capital flight in the first place?
Because we are not a dictatorship and have no desire to be one.
you are a dictatorship, of capital
the alternative is a government that serves the people instead of the wealthy, but who wants that?
Overthrowing capitalism is unlikely to happen in the near term and the discussion was about homelessness.
lol