BUT AT WHAT COST?!
No seriously how much does it cost I need affordable housing??
How britian almost solved the housing crisis
Or, you know, do what China is doing. You dont have to agree with someone to learn from them.
That last sentence in particular
imagine not having to pay an entire minimum wage monthly to bankers (at the bare minimum) just to have a roof over your head.
Minimum wage isn’t enough to pay for a roof over your head… unless you mean the roof of a car…
not with all the other bills and stuff to pay for. at least here.
and cars are getting more and more expensive because our car industry doesn’t want to sell to consumers anymore, living in cars is not as viable.
I’m paying 3x my states monthly minimum wage for hourly workers to own in a fairly modest 1100 sqft house in a semi walkable area in a major city.
Before here I used to pay my states monthly minimum wage for hourly workers to live in a fucking slum just outside the city. House was by an interstate so I got soot on anything I left outside, all the houses in the neighborhood were water damaged and molded to hell, the roads were so cracked it was fucking up cars, and everyone who lived there seemed miserable.
It’s grind or die, I got so fucking sick living in alleged affordable housing. Nerve damage and all kinds of weird chronic health problems from living in such a toxic death trap for years. They don’t call it the Dirty South for nothing, this place is completely fucked.
Renting is when your landlord makes you pay an extra 25 dollars a month because you yelled at him one time over leaving cat shit in the shared bathroom all day
Shared bathrooms, what a concept.
Doesn’t China have an issue with 65 million of their homes sitting empty which belong to people with no intention to ever move in?
It’s my understanding that owning a home in China is seen as social leverage so people buy homes that don’t even benefit their lives.
This isn’t too be a pessimist, I do think China’s rising middle class is much better off than it has ever been. I just don’t idealize their housing.
There was a problem with using housing as an investment vehicle, yes, though the state took action against that, destroying the “market” for balooning housing prices.
How did they deflate the market? So it wasn’t social pressure but rather economic pressure that led to it?
“Houses are for living, not for speculation.”
The state implemented strong controls on credit and to curb debt in the property sector. Strong positions against real estate investment.
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china, being a dictatorship of the proletariat and having an actually-working participatory democratic process, has its press in the hands of the people. western countries, being dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, have their press in the hands of a few billionaires, and somehow according to shitlibs that makes it “free and fair” lmfao
lmfao a western-backed “freedom index” is not a substitution for media literacy, nor does it excuse you from providing literally any material evidence to support your argument.
Also, do you want to explain why Israel is ranked at 112; 50 places above Venezuela and Palestine; and why Saudi fuckin Arabia is right there between VZ and PA? Seems to me like this “freedom index” doesn’t correlate very well with democracy or human rights, much less evidence-based journalism or state transparency.
Ah, the same Reporters Without Borders gaslighting the world about journalist deaths in Gaza?
You know how it’s frustrating when far right reactionaries roll up in lib spaces on reddit spewing propaganda the sources of which they haven’t investigated critically? That’s you. You’re doing that here. Please stop.
“china ranked a senseless brutal dictatorship according to their enemies”, nice try.
your so called land of the free has the largest prison population in the planet period. you guys are literally getting the gestapo to kill innocent bystanders on the streets while calling yourselves a democracy.
you guys could really use learning from socialists and arresting some of your fascistic “journalists” and politicians peddling genocide on so called “dictatorships” you know nothing about abroad. maybe then you can have affordable housing.
Amazing, capitalist press saying capitalist press is limited in China and that’s “scary.”
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.world users acting like .world users
The freezing homeless people you pass every day in glorious freedomland would love one of those.
