Free housing for all?

[xbuzzerx]

That which costs us nothing has little or no value to us. Pride of ownership, on the otherhand, comes from working and earning something, thereby becoming valuable to us.

On the flipside of that sentiment, what many people in dense cities and expensive states tend to be facing down is the realistic prospect of never owning a home, no matter how long or hard they work at it. If you think that's fiction, you can easily google the plight of firefighters, police, teachers and other nominally-paid workers trying to ever move out of their parents' home in Hawaii. Not to even mention people browsing obituaries trying to find any open spot in cities like New York or San Francisco. And that's if you can afford it.

In a picture where a significant number of people may never own a home, the only benefit from that is to property owners and landlords and large corporate management entites for large apartment complexes.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Cuban tenements are relevant to the topic of government-supplied housing.

They may be not be relevant to YOUR notion of subsidised housing because —until you start talking dollars— your notions of free housing are fantasy.

Don't your country, Brazil, and Japan all have substantially improved fiberoptic national networks for internet that were government subsidized? I know that the Japanese in particular laugh at the bandwidth packages typical in America for the same price as a far superior one in Japan.

If I'm not mistaken the roads and bridges and dams in nearly all western countries were government projects, as well.

But yeah, government can't do anything, or if it can, it just costs way too much. At least to really cynical people with no imagination or desire for change.

 

[pat grimshaw]

..the realistic prospect of never owning a home..

I understand that very few people own homes in London or Rome. They buy 99-year leases.

Some of our European JUBbers could tell us about that.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...the roads and bridges and dams in nearly all western countries were government projects...

Yes. That used to be so when we were part of the British empire/ commonweath but wer'e still following the english example. Like, I hear British Rail and British Airways got privatised and then it switched back anf got got nationalised. It seems to change according as to who is in power.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I understand that very few people own homes in London or Rome. They buy 99-year leases.

Some of our European JUBbers could tell us about that.

Don't know about London or Rome. In Amsterdam the lease is for the land the house is on, not for the house itself, I think.

 

[Kulindahr]

Cuban tenements are relevant to the topic of government-supplied housing. They may be not be relevant to YOUR notion of subsidised housing because —until you start talking dollars— your notions of free housing are fantasy.

About as relevant as ancient chariots are to modern railroads.

 

[pat grimshaw]

... —until you start talking dollars— your notions of free housing are fantasy ...

 

[Kulindahr]

Obviously you didn't read the original post.

 

[Benvolio]

As a start we should stop creating poverty.

 

[Kulindahr]

As a start we should stop creating poverty.

But the Republicans in Congress oppose that.

As do most corporations.