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I have a few suggestions to alleviate this.
Bear in mind that I find it OK, or even desirable, for people to invest, and have some properties to rent to support them in their later years.
1- build public housing, with a rent equivalent to something like 40% of minimum wage. Building should done in random areas, to prevent ghettos from appearing.
2- tax the fuck out of vacant houses.
3- tax house ownership, by individuals or corps, progressively, to discourage accumulation and speculation.
Have 1 house? 0%, 2->10%, 5->15%, and so on, so that having more than let's say, 10 units stops making sense.
3- tax productive empty land (developpable, housing/comercial/agri) like empty homes, to make speculation and accumulation non attractive.
Thare are many more, I'm sure but these protect private property, investment, would lower prices, make housing accesible, while normalizing the sector.
This is democratic socialism. Allow capitalism, but keeping extremes in check, while providing a safety net.
People are getting toxic at you so as OP i just want to send love for your radical [compared to the status quo] acknowledgment that vacant homes should be taxed.
Other people are being mean sickos for a percentage you mentioned, and though I share their perspectives, it still stands true that NO ONE in our current government would be caught dead saying such a radical anti-1% thing as far as I know. Keep fighting for human rights and don’t let the internet trolls push you backwards. ❤️
[There is time in the future for you to learn and perhaps become even more radical <like me lol ✨> but no shame for advocating for basic tier one human rights oriented policies.]
imagine thinking thats radical 🤣
how about housing as a human right? How about abolishing the class system where you have those that own and those who work? Any system which allows for "passive" income is by the definition of the phrase unjust.
radical compared to the status quo, thanks for allowing me to clarify
not starving kids in gaza is radical compared to the status quo, the status quo is not an acceptable benchmark.
As is not having rape-and-torture-dungeons.
Whats that about?
Im just a fucking prude i guess.
I dont know what you're alluding to
Well, i hold some radical prude positions, as much as i fancy myself a bit of a libertine in every other way.
Like not wanting to pay for an unaccoubtable rape and torture dungeon, concentration camp, or forever prison (not qctually into prisons at all, but the unaccountable rape&torture and forever kind are extra nope to me; just cant get off on it). Such a prude in really politically radical ways, even if i think you should also be able to say 'gay' or 'trans' without being demonetized, so im also kind of radical left? Idk. People are complicated i guess.
I still dont know what dungeons you're talking about, epstein, iof, some other fresh horror?
Guantanamo bay, cecot, etc