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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Mass produced shipping container housing might not be a bad idea though if governments can fund it. As long as they have consistent design requirements factored in (electricity, water, and sewage hookups), a place to set up that hasn't been NIMBY'd, and offered free to the people, I'd be all for it.

Let's end the housing crisis. Let's end homelessness. It isn't impossible.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is that photo real ? Which place and country is that ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Columbus, Ohio believe it or not. Deadly housing, excellent internet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol that's the "stacks" from ready player one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Which takes place in? Say it with me, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Crazy but interesting.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We have houses already. We have enough houses to house everyone, it's just not profitable to do so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I live in an an area with a lot of empty houses. A lot of those houses are not fit for human habitation. Someone dies, the house gets tied up in probate, the kids don't want to live in the area--nor do most other people--and so the house that was already in disrepair degrades more. And, TBH, moving homeless people to rural areas that have a lot of abandoned homes would make it harder for them to access social services.

Yeah, we have the houses. Just not where the homeless people are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Do you not know that there is enough housing already? The issue is that housing is an investment object, and giving the people homes isn’t profitable. So a lot of housing goes unused to keep prices high and the investment profitable