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[-] Sakychu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago

Pretty much this! Also it is much easier and cheaper to tell Google to stop offering tiktok in their app store then it is to build affordable housing where it is needed..

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Yea but where? There’s a push for it in my state. Drove past a new area that will be a neighborhood of cookie cutter SFH, probably with driveways too short to contain full size vehicles. And they’ll cost more than half a million so I’m not sure how that’s affordable. Anyway. It’s being built on the flood plain. 8/10 flood factor.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

We really need more high density housing closer to urban centers, but Americans seem to be allergic to it. Everyone wants their single family house. Also too, without subsidies they're is no profit incentive for developers to build the necessary housing stock, they all shoot for "luxury" housing because it's the most profitable.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've always wanted like... A townhome. But the problem is anything like that (even away from city/population centers but still near enough to commute is astronomically expensive.

[-] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If only we made a school for teaching people how to do the things we need most. It could be run by the government as a nonprofit. We could incorporate medical and all the other industries we are getting gouged by.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, public state universities could fulfill this role if they could get past their admin rot

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

without subsidies they’re is no profit incentive for developers to build the necessary housing stock

So cap rent. If a developer wants to build, they need to build what people actually need. You don't need to hand them boatloads of money to make affordable housing more profitable than non-affordable housing, just ban the unaffordable housing nobody needs.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 0 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, the obvious solution: more suburban blight.

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