this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I would like some houses without people. Having a little surplus is usually a good thing. So like if some houses become unlivable, we have houses for the suddenly unhoused people.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

I guess they mean it from a sustainability perspective. Stop building homes that aren't being used to house people, ie, stop building homes for speculators.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But then the house will be lonely :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Run it as a pet café. In the above-mentioned emergency, people can move in, but they have to foster the pets.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That's perfect. I'm voting for you for king of the world

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

no houses without people while there's people without houses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That part of things could be aimed a China. They have something like double the amount of housing their population needs. To someone in a country with out of control housing prices, that might sound like a good problem to have, but it's still wasteful.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dr House might be an abusive asshole, but he's not that much of a piece of shit

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Drag wishes departments of diagnostic medicine were real

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

In Canada they say we have a housing supply problem. I think about that a lot on my morning drive to work as I drive by row after row of massive houses with nobody living in them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

I will not rest until a squatter occupies every empty investor-owned home

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

purrrrfect balance of supply and demand 😸

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You aren't allowed you move out of a home unless someone else is moving in. We can all create a chain like hermit crabs or those organ donations to help find more completed solutions. You know, I was being facetious but this would actually be doable....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Most people buy with a mortgage, so that is functionally exactly the situation they are in. Most property transactions are part of a chain, and if any link in that chain fails, the entire thing, which can be many links long, comes to a screeching halt and possibly collapses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if the USSR tried to implement something like that lol

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

We’re literally doing that in capitalist countries. If I want to break my lease without finding a subletter, it would cost 10% of the median annual income.

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

Maybe Marx was right?

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, [administrator and worker, MBA and engineer, director and doctor, landlord and tenant], in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another..."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The kind of free market I can get behind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

But there's a problem. Everyone can make people not not everyone can make house :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Another reason to defend abortion access. GOP out, at every level!

(If you aren't in the US, still vote to shut conservatives out, every election. They can't be trusted, they'll steal your rights.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I obviously do. I am very much a voter. I am not sure if this is true, but it feels like more people vote here than in the US.

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

We do have shamefully low turnout

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone can make house, it's actually really easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Fuck yeah, squat the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i first thought this was some anti homeless shit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, people without houses!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

"We don't want homeless people in our city" can mean two very different things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Where I like to ride bikes is a huge wildlife preserve, with giant houses in it that are only used for 2 weeks a year.