China is facing opposite problem
There’s plenty of housing, it’s just not profitable to let people live there, so obviously it’s better to just leave it all empty.
The backwards thing is, it probably actually is profitable, but we can’t see beyond the next quarter. We don’t understand that you can invest in your people.
I might have kids if I had the space for it. You know, future taxpayers.
Another cyberpunk come true scenario that involves absolutely no cool cybernetics
Appropriate that something in a neoliberal community is in the shitposting community too.
That is not the consequence of enough housing. It’s from wealth hoarding.
Damn that backpack looking spacious af
Ha!
I went from #3 in the 80s to #4, then to #1 in the mid 1990s.
I don’t think it matters where you start, what bothers me so much more is the lack of opportunity to move up this chart now. I knew, in my heart, that if I sold out and worked someplace evil I could have the big money, and what’s more, even without doing evil I could have the small money by following the steps - go to school, get a job.
I don’t feel like younger people have that. It always took some degree of luck, but more like bad luck would set you back. Now it’s more like you need good luck just to get started!
The consequences of letting companies buy up residential homes.
Residential housing shouldn’t be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
A co-op could handle it without much problem.
Yeah, anything that prevents the financialisation of residential housing floats my boat. In Iceland we have big corpos selling each other houses at over market price to increase the average m^2 price in an area. It’s pretty bonkers.
In the US, money laundering accomplishes essentially the same thing.
Can we get some information on what’s the ratio of total houses/people in the country, from 1960 to today?
After the embarrassment of the last ten years, and the ongoing embarrassment until the fat orange child rapist dies, then I’d say getting a backpack and leaving the Nazied States of America is probably the best move.
200 million Americans in 1970, 340 million now. The dream of a nice house with a big yard is limited by space; space that also requires farmland, forests, parks, etc… We need dense apartment buildings, not houses.
lol all the people in states ini housing crisis will just complain about rich companies by housing, or even the Chinese buying houses. No one just wants to build housing
We made a shit tin of those. Many are empty to drive prices up.
A lack of housing is not the problem most places. The problem is that housing shifted from being a place for people to live to a way for people to acquire “passive income”. Hell, the very design of housing changed in a noticeable way: houses shifted from being homes to being feature laden investment vehicles.
Obviously fake and misrepresented. The paint isn’t peeling off that van.
Building it isn’t the problem. My Republican shithole burb just bulldozed the last of our open space, to build 600 single family units starting in the “low one millions.” Can’t afford that? No problem. They’re also building 2000 condos, starting in “the mid 500s.”
Starting to see the real problem?
