Quote from: RE on May 05, 2024, 12:53 PMI think we need to build the affordable housing first so when the fuel prices start to rise people have a place to move to.  Otherwise we'll end up with even more people living in their cars than we have now.

RE

You are not going to get affordable housing without a revolution.  The profit motive took over and extraordinary measures must be taken to put that genie back in the bottle.  That being the case 'waiting for it first' is counterproductive. 

Without a party to demand change, there will be no change.  A social justice party built around carbon dividends will give you a base with which to demand affordable housing.  Without a base to make demands you simply are not going to get affordable housing or anything else. 

Humpty Dumpty fell off the housing wall long ago.  Greed was good in the 1980's.  It was as American as apple pie and the myth of greed is good is still pushed by our upper class.  Greed of course did not start in the 1980's.  But that was when Social Darwinism was rechristened with that catchy phrase.  Now forty years later, greed pushed prices so high affordable housing is out of sight.  Membership in the church of greed is as high as ever.  The century of the self is not over.

If you want affordable housing you have to change a lot of social programming first.  The way things are now, very few people have a problem with housing.  Anger at being locked out because prices are high is not the same thing as having issues with the arrangements.  Many people benefit from current arrangements, and these people are highly motivated to keep things exactly as they are.  Most of the rest are class traitor wanna-bees who support current property ownership arrangements even though they have no pot to piss in. 

I am the only person I know who actually does not like seeing their house increase in value.  Home ownership was never about making money for me.  Home ownership is a value to me because I remember my grandmother and her brothers talking about people being 'put out' of their homes in the 1930s.  Good people.  Owning a home I do not consider to be an 'investment', and I never have.  Ideally an average home should cost about five times an average annual wage.  That gives normal working people the ability to own one.  That would make my home worth a third to a half of what greed says it is worth now.  Maybe.  If I could buy an equivalent home with that lowered amount I would be fine with it.   

Try and find someone who thinks like I do.  Good luck.  You are going to implement affordable housing how?  You have no foundation on which to build it.