• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Even if this exact version gets passed into law, courts are going to kill the ban on venture capital buying homes or the rich assholes will just find a loophole, and the slashing of regulations and subsidies just mean for profit developers are going to get paid taxpayer money to build barely affordable shit boxes that will fall apart in a few years

    We need actual public housing and to tax the big investors out of existence

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      10 days ago

      The problem is construction. America needs millions of new homes to meet demand. And this bill doesn’t stop venture capital from building new homes; it just mandates that they sell those homes within seven years.

      So, yes, they’ll be building barely-affordable shit boxes, but those shit boxes will be designed to last exactly eight years.

      Edit: correcting autocorrect-induced typos

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        Yep, and having seen all the ways for profit market based entities have screwed people over my entire life I think the only real answer to this problem of construction is a massive public works project. Housing healthcare education and public safety are all too important to be left up to markets.