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So there's a ton of countries that I've heard have had truly unaffordable housing for decades, like:

  • The UK
  • Ireland
  • The Netherlands

And I've heard of a ton of countries where the cost of houses was until recently quite affordable where it's also started getting worse:

  • Germany
  • Poland
  • Czechia
  • Hungary
  • The US
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • And I'm sure plenty others
  1. It seems to be a pan-Western bloc thing. Is the cause in all these countries the same?
  2. We've heard of success stories in cities like Vienna where much of the housing stock is municipally owned – but those cities have had it that way for decades. Would their system alleviate the current crisis if established in the aforementioned countries?
  3. What specific policies should I be demanding of our politicians to make housing affordable again? Is there any silver bullet? Has any country demonstrably managed to reverse this crisis yet?
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think China is doing something funky, but it's hard to get reliable information about that country

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. We are sorely missing an honest and reliable source of news about China.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

Vienna has 50% public housing and as a result basically no homeless population.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

How Britain (Almost) Solved the Housing Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZpLiJdIGbs so we didn't and then we did and then we didn't

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ooh I watched this when it was released. So essentially vast municipal ownership. Definitely something I can get behind but it takes decades.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

China also has a massive homelessness problem, so it's definitely not a "pan-Western bloc" thing. This is despite China executing every landlord and building enough homes, turns out people get assigned to a home in a region where they don't actually live or work...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Austria has, with widespread high quality public housing.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-social-housing-secret-how-vienna-became-the-worlds-most-livable-city

There are some waitlists and whatnot still, but arguably the bigger impact is that the increased housing supply has kept private rents very affordable too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

the increased housing supply has kept private rents very affordable too.

This is very good.

Do you know if Austria had an Ireland-style house price problem before they did this (ie. would it halt the crisis in Ireland now), or is it more that it just prevented the crisis we see in surrounding countries from happening in Austria in the first place?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look at places in the U.S. who have built a lot more housing -- rents and housing prices have gone down.

  1. Relax/change zoning requirements
  2. Give subsidies to developers for affordable housing
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's a bunch of available housing in my area, but it's just super expensive. I guess building more might work. My only concern is I only see larger 3+ BR housing or shared housing behind built. The days is affordable 1 to 2 bedroom houses are over. If you want something smaller, you are stuck with condo and high HOAs. Personally, I think they should bring back trailer parks and force ownership to be local.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Trailer parks have the same problem as suburbs of being super low density. They should stack the trailers on top of each other to save space.

Edit: ok I guess what I'm suggesting are those builders' prefabs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Not everyone wants to live in a trailer park.

Smaller housing would need to be subsidized because it costs a lot to build relative to what it could be sold for.

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