“But we also think that the responsibility for the safety of [low-income people] — and let’s face it, it’s low-income people who have this problem — that’s a responsibility for society at large, for everyone, not just for the people who happen to own the buildings where these people make their homes.”

      • timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 days ago

        So do we just… fuck over all the renters living in landlord-owned units for the next 5-20 years while this cool new mass public housing is being built by all those extra construction workers we definitely don’t have a shortage of?

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          6 hours ago

          We should let the housing market crash out, then nationalize it ;)

          Similar to what was done after 2008 except federal government doesn’t give money parasites and just does it by itself

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            2 hours ago

            Do you realize how many suicides and assorted anguish such a crash would cause?

            I swear to gods, you people don’t really know how to think things through.