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Luna | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 There is simply so much more to it than meets the eye. The whole system is so broken. Where to start? A single measure doesn't change much, paving over one problem but opening up another.
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Gary ₿usey | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Broken is a VERY lenient term. 😅
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Laeserin | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah. We have a bad housing shortage, but it's hard to buy land. Hard to get a permit. Hard to meet the regulations. Hard to get a mortgage. Hard to get the utilities hooked up.
And the resulting building costs so much to pay off that the rent is too expensive for potential renters.
So it just sits there, empty.

People build apartment buildings and then are forbidden to rent them out because a regulation was added that you need 2 parking spaces per unit and they only have 1,75 per unit.
So it just sits there, empty.
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Luna | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Land and real estate prices are enormous! My kids are currently trying to find an affordable farm.
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Laeserin | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah, it's nuts. Especially in comparison to net incomes.
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Laeserin | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah.

The thing that really made me aware of this is the fact that the German government still can't figure out how to get the money out of the EU Covid fund. It's billions of euros, sitting there for years, but they agreed to digitize some government offices as a precondition to receiving the money... 

and they just. can't. do. it.
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mleku | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 it's well past the point where we need to dial it back but governments are ratchets so you have to shred its teeth