Darrackodrama t1_ixdizzg wrote
Reply to comment by GND52 in It's a Miracle Your Favorite Local Bar Still Exists by troxwalt
Correction rent control doesn’t work if you believe in a world where landlords and developers are the only providers of houses. Other countries have shown time and time again that the public sector can do good housing you just need to invest in it as a priority.
ghiaab_al_qamaar t1_ixefbas wrote
Which other countries have shown this “time and time again”?
Off the top of my head, I can think of ambitious public housing programs in Austria (which in the modern day is increasingly utilizing public-private partnerships) and Singapore (whose 99-year lease concept alters the game quite a bit).
Darrackodrama t1_ixfhdjk wrote
Austria and Singapore and in part Hong Kong, these are the only places it’s been tried in part at least.
It works 100% you just have to do it
Also I want to add to that list some of the Soviet republics, they at least showed you do not need private landlords to house people. Sure the housing wasn’t the best quality but modern Russian housing is just as poor but far more expensive even for krushchev blocks.
For their time Soviet housing blocks were revolutionary walkable communities
Inevitable_Return_63 t1_ixueyw5 wrote
Yes, if you ask anyone who lived in Soviet Russian housing, it is nothing but a constant stream of praise!…
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