Imagine if we invented magic buildings that could hold more than one family. Imagine how many people could fit in a relatively small area.
Why, you could fit like 1.6 million people into 33 square miles, like in Manhattan.
If you let people build, it turns out they do. Zoning codes are the problem. And in Cali you know who votes for exclusionary zoning? Progressive liberals. Because terrible people live everywhere and believe every ideology.
Answers are practical, ideologies aren’t. Let people build. Let “neighborhood character” evolve as a neighborhood does. Gentrify poor neighborhoods and subsidize the rent of the otherwise-displaced til their wages match local COL.
These are solvable problems. Blaming capitalism is absurd when capitalism was kneecapped over a generation ago.
I’m not a liberal, for whatever that’s worth.
Sure, lets build more affordable housing, that’s fine.
You ignored my entire point though and went on your own ideological ramble there (one paragraph saying we don’t need ideology and the next defending capitalism. Do you read what you write? Lmfao).
Are you saying you don’t believe supply/demand is a real thing? Or you just choose to ignore the impact that over 10 million housing scalpers would have on the U.S housing market?
If it’s neither of those, then I guess we’re in agreement, outlaw housing scalpers and build affordable housing. We could get median housing costs down to a fraction of what they are now, just like other societies have that outlawed scalpers.
Capitalism isn’t an ideaology, it’s an economic system.
Supply and demand is a real thing and demand vastly outstrips supply due to lack of ability to build.
But you don’t have to take my word for it:
https://danville.ca.gov/CivicSend/ViewMessage/message/153105
I responded when lemmy.world was having issues, so my lemmy client couldn’t find your comment and so it just responded at the top level: https://lemmy.world/comment/1975730
