Diopolis wrote:Ifreann wrote:Housing decommodified and guaranteed for all people, no exceptions, ideally with local communities democratically making decisions about building more housing or converting unused housing. No one has to buy a house ever again, no one has to pay rent ever again. You want to live in the big city? Someone there wants to move out of the city, you can have the house they won't be using any more, no money need change hands.
How do you incentivize new housing to be built if the end user doesn't pay?
There are no incentives. The provision of housing would not be done on a for-profit basis.
Does the government pay for new housing construction at need
The cost of housing would be socialised, yes.
(and how does the government pay for this)?
How do governments pay for multi-trillion dollar foreign wars?
If so, what incentivizes the government to prioritize housing quality?
You don't need to incentivise the government to do things if you have an actual democracy.
What about converting housing in between occupants?
What about it?
Who pays for major repairs,
Socialise the costs of housing.
and what incentivizes them to actually do so? Who coordinates distribution of available housing?
Ideally, each community, but I suppose it could be done by the government.
What role do individual preferences play in housing allotment?
Obviously no one is going to move into a house they don't like.
Distributing housing is a complicated question, and these questions have to be answered.
Distributing housing is a complicated question, but how is housing distributed now? Profit, profit, and profit. Houses lie empty because they only exist as an investment, they'll be sold when the prices are better. There are more houses than homeless people, but there's no profit in housing the homeless, and without the threat of homelessness what incentivises people to spend so very much on housing? Cities all over the world are losing their housing stock to Airbnb landlords, or were before the pandemic, because there's more profit in short term rentals when you can set prices according to what tourists from all over the world will pay. How are workers supposed to live in the city and keep it working? Not a concern, just do what makes the most money. If anything, it is the capitalists that need to be answering questions about how they are distributing housing, because it's clearly not working very well.
Greed and Death wrote:Ifreann wrote:Housing decommodified and guaranteed for all people, no exceptions, ideally with local communities democratically making decisions about building more housing or converting unused housing. No one has to buy a house ever again, no one has to pay rent ever again. You want to live in the big city? Someone there wants to move out of the city, you can have the house they won't be using any more, no money need change hands.
Local communities will under develop as they have no incentive to house people who do not yet live there and people will generally vote to maintain low densities.
How are these spots in high demand cities assigned when they open up ? Waiting list ? That could be decades. Lottery ? That could be even worse. Let the person moving out decide? He or she will be paid in such a case.
I'm sure the specific details can be experimented with to find what works the best. Possibly some kind of weighted lottery.