Degrowthers on here will really be like "you believe in building more housing? that pales in comparison to my approach: forcing everyone to rent out their spare bedrooms" and then not force everyone to rent out their spare bedrooms.
Degrowthers on here will really be like "you believe in building more housing? that pales in comparison to my approach: forcing everyone to rent out their spare bedrooms" and then not force everyone to rent out their spare bedrooms.
And look, don't get me wrong, redistributing the wealth people have accrued from landownership *probably would* reduce homelessness, I've implied as much in the past, and it's a good argument for a land value tax But there no reason to preface that with "we don't need to build*
@GeorgistSteve More like: "You believe in building more housing? That pales in comparison to my approach: rusticating grandma at gunpoint to a remote farmhouse where she'll die of preventable causes in 3 years."
@GeorgistSteve Same argument, but with price theory to make it sound better!
@GeorgistSteve @TimothySandefur San Francisco has been doing that for 20 years, taking over existing properties x.com/auweia1/status…
@GeorgistSteve @TimothySandefur San Francisco has been doing that for 20 years, taking over existing properties x.com/auweia1/status…
@GeorgistSteve We need high rate LVT and upzoning so that market participants can better decide how much housing to consume. How that plays out depends on how much current incentives are distorted in each particular market, and where we are in the 18 year land cycle.
@GeorgistSteve Last I checked, degrowth was against economic growth not... housing growth. Different things.
@GeorgistSteve Careful this is a British article, they might actually do this. (Derogatory)