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What a great idea! As a bonus, when government owns all houses, it can pass all kinds of laws about what you can and can not do in them. What you do in the privacy of your own home may be no one's business, but what you do in a government owned and subsidized dwelling is very much the business of any politician who wants to make it his. I lean far left, but I'm not a communist. This is a horrible idea.
Government owned housing........yes, what a BRILLIANT solution!!!
Fedgov does so many things to artificially-inflate the cost of housing....that is where you start. But that will NEVER happen.....special-interest groups and lobbyists will skreeeeem bloody murder.
The ultra-powerful National Association Of Realtors could probably single-handedly shut-down any changes to their Fedgov gravy-train, that they view as unfavorable.
OP refers to 'the government should purchase' , like it is a separate revenue generating entity with it's own money. I wonder if the OP knows where 'the government' gets its money to spend and that 'the government' has spent $18 TRILLION more than it collects from TAXPAYERS
My in laws immigrated from Eastern Europe in 1950. They rented one room in an apartment with a common kitchen and bath. Other immigrants rented other rooms. They lived like this for years while saving every penny to towards a down payment on their own 3 flat. Once they were able to buy, they rented rooms out to new immigrant families.
They relied on public transportation instead of a car. No TV. Shared party line phone. Used clothing and furniture was good enough. They never dined out. Social activities were limited to church stuff.
Back then 3 and sometimes 4 generations often lived under the same roof. Many had second jobs to make ends meet or to afford discretionary stuff.
Many newly immigrated families continue the tradition of sharing living space while saving or sending money back home.
Here we are today and Apple expects to sell 10 million new I- phones in October. The masses don't bat an eye at $4 cups of fancy coffee.
The masses shop and consume things they don't need and then tend to bemoan how unaffordable housing is.
You bring up a good point. That's why I drive a 10 year old vehicle, (that I paid cash for), no cable or satellite TV, (just internet and Netflix), buy my son's clothes at yard sales, (he's two, he doesn't know what designer is), have an iPhone 4, that I'm using til it dies, refuse to pay $4 for a cup of coffee, that's because I don't drink coffee at all but I get your point
Well the OP's ideas may not work but something does need to be done to provide reasonable rents to the lower incomed, seniors, vets, the disabled, etc. There just isn't enough reasonably priced housing for the above and it is only going to get worse as more and more baby boomers retire.
I agree there needs to be more reasonable priced housing, (the cost in my area has sky-rocketed the past five years), but having the government run it just sounds bad. Regulations I can see, but not actual running by the government
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