• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s a lot of assumptions about my thoughts on who and how the housing will be built and maintained.

    The US federal government has monetary sovereignty, and therefore is only limited by the amount of labor and resources available to the US. The government could produce and provide high quality housing wherever it’s needed, and then transfer the property through an interest-free loan to the residents through a housing cooperative.

    This does a few things:

    • It democratizes housing
    • It creates an enforcement mechanism for paying housing dues without replicating some of the actual mistakes of Soviet housing
    • It ends homelessness
    • It recognizes housing as a foundational part of our survival