• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    17 hours ago

    The solution is collective ownership of housing. Housing is a right, as much as healthcare or education, and centralizing and socializing housing would ensure affordable access for everyone, as it has historically.

    Housing could be owned by unions, by local councils, by the central government or by all of the above, and then rented at maintenance costs to tenants under no threat of eviction. This was the case in the Soviet Union for example, and led to the total elimination of homelessness and to the average rent costing 3% of the average monthly income.

    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      No but that would be communism and that’s bad.

      So what can we do to fix the problem without taking thr landlord dick out of our mouths?