Education around the actual cause of the housing crisis.
Everything in the news and politics is intentionally ignoring the core issue and blaming it on scapegoats (immigrants, corporate landlords, developers)
The single biggest group making the most money off housing by a massive margin?
Regular everyday single house owners.
They make up like 65%+ of the residential market, and yet we’re busy blaming everything else under the sky while trying to protect that group.
You want affordable houses? House prices have to drop, A LOT, for EVERYONE.
They might be the biggest group of home owners, but they’re not themselves the issue. The optimal situation would more or less be every family owning a single home.
If house prices go down equally across the market, single home owners don’t really lose out because people typically sell houses when they want to buy a different house. People who recently took out big mortgages will complain about negative equity and some idiots are happy to see a number go up but by and large single home owners will be fine and won’t even complain a lot - they know from their children or other sources that its too damn expensive to buy a house.
The real losers would be people who own property as an investment, and developers. And those two groups have powerful lobbies and the majority of politicians are in the first group.
The single home owner NIMBYs are a problem in cases where prices will be affected but only locally. Then they really stand to lose out. So you basically need to have a massive nationwide house building program, either done by the state or through strong legal incentives to force developers to build a lot more of the right kind of homes and prevent them from sitting on land waiting for the price to go up. Or probably both.
Education around the actual cause of the housing crisis.
Everything in the news and politics is intentionally ignoring the core issue and blaming it on scapegoats (immigrants, corporate landlords, developers)
The single biggest group making the most money off housing by a massive margin? Regular everyday single house owners.
They make up like 65%+ of the residential market, and yet we’re busy blaming everything else under the sky while trying to protect that group.
You want affordable houses? House prices have to drop, A LOT, for EVERYONE.
Why would they educate you on that.
They don’t even teach people about alternatives to FPTP, good thing there is the internet to cover the missing info public schools decided to hide.
They might be the biggest group of home owners, but they’re not themselves the issue. The optimal situation would more or less be every family owning a single home.
If house prices go down equally across the market, single home owners don’t really lose out because people typically sell houses when they want to buy a different house. People who recently took out big mortgages will complain about negative equity and some idiots are happy to see a number go up but by and large single home owners will be fine and won’t even complain a lot - they know from their children or other sources that its too damn expensive to buy a house.
The real losers would be people who own property as an investment, and developers. And those two groups have powerful lobbies and the majority of politicians are in the first group.
The single home owner NIMBYs are a problem in cases where prices will be affected but only locally. Then they really stand to lose out. So you basically need to have a massive nationwide house building program, either done by the state or through strong legal incentives to force developers to build a lot more of the right kind of homes and prevent them from sitting on land waiting for the price to go up. Or probably both.