• glimse@lemmy.world
    7·
    26 days ago

    Who are these people in the crowd supposed to represent? I can’t figure out who would celebrate affordable rental pricing and also get angry about new construction

  • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
    5·
    26 days ago

    There are already millions of empty homes. How about make it illegal to hoard housing and make shelter a right? How about making it illegal to artificially drive up demand by creating false scarcity?

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    31·
    26 days ago

    Even taking you at your word, just building more houses wouldn’t solve the problem unless the other existing issues are solved first. There are already more than enough houses, several times more unoccupied houses than there are homeless people in fact. If you just make it easier to build more, those new houses will just end up in the same situation as the existing lot: bought up by corporate groups as investments, held ransom by landlords, and generally NOT made available to consumers who want to buy a home.

    So yeah. You’re gonna see some pushback if you’re only making that second argument, all that will do is make the investor class richer without solving any problems.

    • JamesFire@lemmy.world
      2·
      25 days ago

      There are already more than enough houses, several times more unoccupied houses than there are homeless people in fact.

      A huge chunk of them are not where people want/need to live though.

      Vacant housing in Detroit doesn’t help people living in SF

  • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
    11·
    25 days ago

    Hate that deportation is brought up as if it’s an actual problem compared to landlords existing, zoning, and a lack of skilled laborers.

    Immigrants are a net positive to society.