#rethinkhousing — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws?
Say we’ve agreed on a better housing system.

The laws are coming.
The machinery is spinning up.

But while we’re waiting…
surely we can start doing something?

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Lets Rethink Housing: Right — so what would this actually look like in practice?
We’ve talked about incentives.

So what would a real alternative actually look like?

Not theory.
Not slogans.
Just something that could work.

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Can we actually encourage developers and land-bankers to build?
If building homes is how developers make money…
why wouldn’t they be building?

Maybe the question isn’t greed —
maybe it’s incentives.

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We plan roads.
We plan water.
We plan power.

So why don’t we plan housing the same way?

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We didn’t set out to speculate on housing.

We wanted somewhere to live. Somewhere for our family.

So when did homes start feeling like something to bet on?

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Vacant land. Long waiting lists. Rising prices.

Maybe the question isn’t why isn’t anyone building?

Maybe it’s why waiting has become the sensible choice.

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