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Government housing
Have you seen what that looks like in the US? It ain’t pretty or comfortable.
That’s like buying something that’s “military grade” thinking it’s good. It’s not.
I grew up in a government subsidized co-op, and I loved it. It's still going, and some of the rents are as low as $8/mo.
Government/public housing can be good. You just need to protect it.
I already was born unlucky enough to not be rich. What are the chances of being lucky enough to get one of those subsidized co-op homes?
Where I live, affordable housing is distributed on a lottery system. So I mean literally, what are the chances one has to obtain such housing? I can't imagine there are enough homes for every applicant.
The earlier you apply the better your chances. Just call up your city and enquire about applying. If you qualify, they might get back to you next year, or in five years. But they'll definitely never get back to you if your name isn't on the list. Anyway, people move out all the time -- when their luck turns and they decide they want a house, or need to move for work. My parents moved out.
My parents were on the list for less than a year before we got in. We were poor as fuck. I'm talking trip to the steel dump for my birthday kind of poor. So your luck can turn around if you try sometimes.
Yeah lol why would anybody pay inflated prices for a house if government housing was just as good. It's not the government that's your problem, it's the owning class that makes the rules with a vested interest in making sure a) public resources don't compete with private profit and b) workers have to keep working to survive (which also generates private profit)
Look at the public housing in singapore. Shit's awesome. You're telling me the wealthiest nation on the planet can't pull that off? I call bullshit.
Sounds a little ironic in a solarpunk sub but works as a measure in the economic system we live in today I suppose.