My partner and I were discussing this over dinner, our ideas went from buying up land to finance organic farming and distributing it at the lowest price to crashing the financial system to “reset” everybody’s bank account with no possible recovery. Any other ideas?

  • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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    1 year ago

    With 100 billion dollars, I would spend all of it on housing to end homelessness. Let’s just provide homes for as many people as possible. All of it would get spent on this if I had my way.

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      1 year ago

      200,000,000,000 / 200,000 = 1 million homes.

      There are about 140 million homes in the USA.

      You have ~2.5 people per home in the USA.

      You would essentially be able to buy everyone living in Chicago or Houston their own home per population.

      Chicago, IL (Population: 2,670,406)
      Houston, TX (Population: 2,378,146)

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        1 year ago

        I think I would rather work with a builder for higher density housing simply because the money could be stretched further. We need to rethink the concept of housing and homes.