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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Id kick the speculative investors out of housing. No more leveraging billion dollar hedge fund resources to outbid home buyers driving the price of housing to the moon. No more nimby regulations that prohibit building above a certain number of stories, building certain types of homes or the number of unrelated people living in a house. The only regulations left on the books would directly tackle legitimate safety concerns and thats it. Id make it as easy as possible to upgrade or build new housing while enforcing the regulations necessary for housing to be safe to live in. Id encourage the formation of cooperative housing i.e the people living in a complex are part owners and so the management of that building is incentivized not to screw them over. Id dump money into public housing and bolster the occupants' ability to take care of themselves with job training, education and support they need to dig their way out of poverty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A partnership between private equity and co-op style ownership is an interesting idea for condos/apartments. Like say corporations retain a 30% ownership stake in each parcel, lowering the costs to purchase but also requiring a small bit of "rent" every month forever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That could be interesting, as then the corporations would still be paying for a percentage of repairs directly