Post #140359
2026-01-17 22:14 UTC
Replies (31)
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@dp@thebrainbin.org 2026-01-17 22:51
Damn that backpack looking spacious af
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@Maeve@kbin.earth 2026-01-17 23:08
There is enough housing. It sits unoccupied and sometimes disrepair.
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@Deceptichum@quokk.au 2026-01-17 23:19
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@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-18 05:25
That is not the consequence of enough housing. It's from wealth hoarding.
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@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-17 23:33
* Crack down on price fixing * Don't let corporations run AirBNBs or similar * Don't let corporations own any rental building under approximately 10 units. * Don't let rental buildings have more than a low percentage of empty units for turn around. They *have* to lower the rent then. If it goes to $200/month, then so be it. There are so many things to try, but **Trickle Down Housing** never works.
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@Aljernon@lemmy.today 2026-01-18 10:24
A lack of housing is not the problem most places. The problem is that housing shifted from being a place for people to live to a way for people to acquire "passive income". Hell, the very design of housing changed in a noticeable way: houses shifted from being homes to being feature laden investment vehicles.
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@cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2026-01-18 09:06
I'm not really buying the no housing thing now. The thing is, it turned into a commodity. If you just build more, then those with all the money (because that gap is pretty damn vast nowadays) will just buy and hold and rent them Wait till air comes next, or some stupid ass shit.
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@ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 05:43
IMO: do what Vienna is doing: state provided apartments and flats, competing with everyone else. Try price fixing now, corpos. If Vienna did not have this, it would be at the same level as other european metropolises. Edit: typo
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@SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 00:16
Building it isn't the problem. My Republican shithole burb just bulldozed the last of our open space, to build 600 single family units starting in the "low one millions." Can't afford that? No problem. They're also building 2000 condos, starting in "the mid 500s." Starting to see the real problem?
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@FishFace@piefed.social 2026-01-17 22:47
Not a shitpost
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@fort_burp@feddit.nl 2026-01-18 20:23
[Comparing the datasets reveals that there is an average of 45.9 vacant homes per homeless person in the U.S. in 2023, this has increased from 41 in 2010. Mississippi has the highest number of vacant homes to homeless people, with 204.7 vacant homes per one person experiencing homelessness, which is 346% higher than the U.S. average.](https://www.self.inc/info/empty-homes/#comparison) Yea, the problem is capitalism.
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@Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 05:32
We have plenty of housing. The problem is its all tied up with money hoarders. There are several times the number of empty houses than there are homeless. If we got rid hedge fund scumbags ability to horde everything including single family dwellings it would go a long way toward fixing this inequity.
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@olafurp@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 08:22
Residential housing shouldn't be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
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@hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2026-01-18 03:15
Haha I was just watching a YT travelogue of a US guy in his 50s (Gen X) who was travelling the world frugally with a backpack because he can't afford rent in the US. He had some investments and spent less travelling then working and living in the US, so his investments have grown in the 3 yrs he's done this. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNKV0CMgcVUiJNdA-JNlJA Plent of US retirees in Cambodia for the same reaon, can't afford the US anymore.
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@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-18 17:34
2030 is more like ⚰️
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@D_C@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-18 09:33
After the embarrassment of the last ten years, and the ongoing embarrassment until the fat orange child rapist dies, then I'd say getting a backpack and leaving the Nazied States of America is probably the best move.
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@bajabound@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 05:03
Obviously fake and misrepresented. The paint isn't peeling off that van.
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@aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2026-01-17 23:49
The consequences of letting companies buy up residential homes.
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@bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2026-01-18 06:10
How about taxing owners of unoccupied homes?
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@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2026-01-18 03:47
Another cyberpunk come true scenario that involves absolutely no cool cybernetics
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@Smart_Penicillin@lemmy.world 2026-01-17 22:58
In Europe we have already achieved the backpack level. We are winning. 💪
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@wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-17 23:20
There's plenty of housing, it's just not profitable to let people live there, so obviously it's better to just leave it all empty.
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@ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2026-01-18 00:35
....you cross-posted from "Neoliberal" and tried to pass it off as a shitpost? For fucks sake. They're not even trying anymore. At least we don't have to look at a pedophile in this particular political post. Are the mods ever going to do something about this shit?
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@baatliwala@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 07:10
China is facing opposite problem
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@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-01-18 21:21
Can we get some information on what's the ratio of total houses/people in the country, from 1960 to today?
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-01-18 11:03
It's all about the used backpack market here man!
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@modestmeme@lemmy.world 2026-01-17 23:31
200 million Americans in 1970, 340 million now. The dream of a nice house with a big yard is limited by space; space that also requires farmland, forests, parks, etc… We need dense apartment buildings, not houses.
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@asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-18 05:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8PI0zauruk
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@RBWells@lemmy.world 2026-01-18 00:31
Ha! I went from #3 in the 80s to #4, then to #1 in the mid 1990s. I don't think it matters where you start, what bothers me so much more is the lack of opportunity to move up this chart now. I knew, in my heart, that if I sold out and worked someplace evil I could have the big money, and what's more, even without doing evil I could have the small money by following the steps - go to school, get a job. I don't feel like younger people have that. It always took some degree of luck, but more like bad luck would set you back. Now it's more like you need good luck just to get started!
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@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2026-01-17 23:22
Appropriate that something in a neoliberal community is in the shitposting community too.
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@evol@lemmy.today 2026-01-18 06:17
House ownership rates have been like the same for decades ? I really never understood these arguments