this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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we all need to pick a small town and fucking descend upon it
In capitalism as inventory goes down prices go up. As we descend upon that small town and rent or buy what's there, prices go up.We need to instead lobby for legislation that heavily taxes investment properties. That will free the hundreds of thousands of homes that're empty. Also local housing initiatives where tax dollars go to subsidize the building of more houses. Look at the G.I. Bill after WW2 for a great example of this. But instead of veterans, anyone with income 90k or below gets a check to help with their first home. Of course we'd keep the GI Bill for veterans as well. This isn't a zero sum game.
Some anti-NIMBY regulation could probably help too at least when it comes to residential buildings.
Looking at the drama that's currently going on in my small village, NIMBY is a hell of a drug. Not sure how we can regulate that.