@91351ecb @373e5fdf agreed re: housing solutions, wages, etc. What we really need to do, too, is just end speculative land ownership. We have a massive surplus of empty housing versus our demand for homes.
@87705a52 @373e5fdf
The US has a massive surplus. That I've seen people post evidence of.
But from what I've read, we don't. There are more homeless in Vancouver than empty rental bedrooms for instance. We didn't have enough housing even before airbnb and speculative investors made it worse. We didnt build fast enough to keep up with population growth going back to sone time in the 70s, and this is the consequence of 50 years of "Its not profitable enough to build lots of new housing so we won't build much".
(By all means correct me if with sources though if I'm wrong).
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