Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 days agoThe consequences of not building enough housinglemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1800arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up1776arrow-down1external-linkThe consequences of not building enough housinglemmy.worldSine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 day agoResidential housing shouldn’t be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
minus-squareAljernon@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoA co-op could handle it without much problem.
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoYeah, anything that prevents the financialisation of residential housing floats my boat. In Iceland we have big corpos selling each other houses at over market price to increase the average m^2 price in an area. It’s pretty bonkers.
minus-squareAljernon@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoIn the US, money laundering accomplishes essentially the same thing.
Residential housing shouldn’t be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
A co-op could handle it without much problem.
Yeah, anything that prevents the financialisation of residential housing floats my boat. In Iceland we have big corpos selling each other houses at over market price to increase the average m^2 price in an area. It’s pretty bonkers.
In the US, money laundering accomplishes essentially the same thing.