• BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I’m begging developers to stop.

    The problem isn’t “not enough houses,” the problem is rich fuck “investors” buying up all the empty houses to sit on them

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      9 months ago

      No, don’t stop building. The problem is rich fucks and their politician friends who won’t implement any meaningful rules to curb the behaviour.

      I’m a fan of the ‘y’all can have one’ rules for home ownership. Anything after the first should come with cumulative tax penalties, +10% to the total value of your property assessment per property should be sufficient to start. So someone with three $1M homes is looking at a property tax bill of 130%.

      While I am dreaming, I’d like a pony.

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        9 months ago

        No, don’t stop building

        If we’re talking about dreaming, I’d like a world where humans keep to relatively small and dense habitable areas anf leave the rest of the natural world alone

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      9 months ago

      We do legitimately need more housing. The population is always growing. The thing is we need sensible mid rise buildings with 1,000 sq ft 2 bedroom units. The hilarious thing is we could build them fast and cheap using modular techniques but the rent would still be horrendous because of the investors.