Should housing be nationalized?

[Deblar]

I can only support the nationalization of housing if I'm in control because then I can sell the houses at ridiculously overpriced prices with literally zero competition and become the richest person on the planet

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[Free Algerstonia]

I can only support the nationalization of housing if I'm in control because then I can sell the houses at ridiculously overpriced prices with literally zero competition and become the richest person on the planet

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I'll just buy them back with all the money I make from my housing monopoly

[Free Ravensburg]

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I'll just buy them back with all the money I make from my housing monopoly

You forget people can build houses.

[The Snazzylands]

I can only support the nationalization of housing if I'm in control because then I can sell the houses at ridiculously overpriced prices with literally zero competition and become the richest person on the planet

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[Terruana]

https://ne-np.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/what-its-like-to-rent-from-a-corporate-landlord/1110337736128701/

(Yes, I know it's TYT, doesn't make it any less true. Also, can't find the original video anymore so I had to settle for a reupload.)

So the problems with the wealthy screwing over renters in the USA are getting worse and worse. Ana advocates for stopping private equity firms from buying up housing. I'd go further than that and say that if these are the results capitalism produces, it's time for capitalism to no longer have any role whatsoever in the housing market. It's time for housing to be nationalized. No more of this "muh economic freedumz" crap. They didn't accept that during coronavirus lockdowns, nor should they have. Time for society to take the lesson it learned from that and apply it here as well.

Yes to the extent that there should be adequate nationalised safety netting to ensure nobody should ever be homeless or forced into unsuitable housing.

Id also advocate against private landlords being able to own more than 1 rental property at a time, and add a lot of extra restrictions protecting private tenants rights.

Businesses based on renting out properties en masse also require far more oversight.

[Resilient Acceleration]

What's "housing", though?

If I build a house in the middle of rural somewhere, will I be arrested and go to jail? Or will a government agent park at the front, wait until the house's construction is finished, point a gun at my face and seize the property?

Do the national (or federal) government pay for all of my housing maintenance? Plumbing? Wifi? Furnitures and TV? What if I want to put a golden chandelier in my living room, do they pay for it? Am I even allowed to? What if I want to add another garage? Or a third story? Or a small grocery store? Or a smaller new house adjacent to the current house? Can I rent out said adjacent house to other people? Is there a faceless bureaucrat I have to beg for permission before I can do any of those?

Housing, no. Land, sure, like Singapore's leasing system. Or of it's too radical, just simple LVT.

[Kerwa]

Housing, no. Land, sure, like Singapore's leasing system. Or of it's too radical, just simple LVT.

Nobody actually “owns” land in the US (maybe a few people a little bit in Nevada and Texas).

[Balkannia]

We have to be realistic, some people will never earn enough for housing, its the way it is, bad luck or something, eco-refugees, regional economic crisis, so the government must have - if not ministry of housing - then atleast government housing agency. The government should provide basic housing to those people.

It is the best of both worlds. The capitalists can't complain it will destroy housing market and discourage people to own homes, and communists must be happy because there are no more homeless people.

[Free Algerstonia]

I'll just buy them back with all the money I make from my housing monopoly

You forget people can build houses.

I'll ban that

[Ascendant Yugoslavia]

No, we should not nationalize housing. It would result in egregious violation of private property rights and probably wind up horribly mismanaged by central government. We should regulate pricing and avoid predatory marketing, but no central control over all housing should be allowed.

[Ifreann]

No, we should not nationalize housing. It would result in egregious violation of private property rights and probably wind up horribly mismanaged by central government. We should regulate pricing and avoid predatory marketing, but no central control over all housing should be allowed.

Doesn't regulating pricing also violate private property rights?

[Provisional America]

Partially, yes. I would nationalize to prevent gentrification and demolition, but not for everything.

[Touseyland]

Housing should be nationalized in the basic sense but people should be allowed to buy a second or nicer house

[Agend]

What's "housing", though?

If I build a house in the middle of rural somewhere, will I be arrested and go to jail? Or will a government agent park at the front, wait until the house's construction is finished, point a gun at my face and seize the property?

Do the national (or federal) government pay for all of my housing maintenance? Plumbing? Wifi? Furnitures and TV? What if I want to put a golden chandelier in my living room, do they pay for it? Am I even allowed to? What if I want to add another garage? Or a third story? Or a small grocery store? Or a smaller new house adjacent to the current house? Can I rent out said adjacent house to other people? Is there a faceless bureaucrat I have to beg for permission before I can do any of those?

Housing, no. Land, sure, like Singapore's leasing system. Or of it's too radical, just simple LVT.

It'll probably depends upon the private property laws for the rural somewhere. You'll have to deal with the person owning the land first. Most like you'll be arrested.