• Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Disagree with what you’re saying though there is some truth in what you’re saying: We’re low on supply on housing in major business areas, because we haven’t kept up with house manufacturing for like 20+ years. If we just allow developers to build what they like, yeah they’ll mainly aim for luxury apartments/condos which only the rich will be able to afford. There will be strong resistance from the landlords to drop the property/rent value since the property is constructed to be more luxurious, so we’d need a ton of those luxury homes before medium and low income homes get built or become available (through price drops). That’s why, governments need to require some low income/median income offered units to help house more people with these new units until supply catches up or some other way to ensure that lower income people (non-rich) are able to afford homes.

    Overall, making more homes is the ultimate solution to our low supply problem, we can argue of better ways to make more homes, get more average/median people housed, and decrease living costs, while we make new homes. Otherwise, we’ll be here arguing about what to do, and letting the problem continue to fester instead of refining imperfect solutions.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s why, governments need to require some low income/median income offered units to help house more people with these new units until supply catches up or some other way to ensure that lower income people (non-rich) are able to afford homes.

      But they don’t, they want to make money too. Tell me specifically how the developers and “luxury” home creators are trying to make that happen. I’ll give you a hint, they’re not which is why trickle down housing TM doesn’t work. Developers are great at getting the laws to work in their favor by using cash.

      First, take care of corporations buying apartment buildings and homes for short term rentals, then we can talk about supply.