https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/milpitas-school-district-teachers-housing/2989286/

The libs are trying to solve the housing crisis in deep blue areas by having teachers live with their students. Teachers are quitting and they will have no one to run their schools, but they still won't give in and support solutions that would hurt property values.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 years ago

    @ everyone

    What do you think the best way to drastically lower property values is?

    -e- I'm thinking along these lines rn but anything more impactful is welcome too

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago
      1. Decommodify housing via nationalization. This would involve a payout to homeowners who bought their homes under the current system combined with a transition to Cuba-style lifetime tenancy rights. Ditto for excess housing stock sitting in the hands of developers, although you wouldn't want to pay market value for that.
      2. Aggressively build nice, dense housing that would allow lots of people to live near where they work.
      3. Long-term, come up with some system for allocating housing to people by need (e.g., accounting for moves for work or school, and eventually periodic "change of pace" moves).
      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        Okay that's what a large hypothetical political organization can do. What's something that a small group of friends can do?

        To keep things affordable. Stabilize the market. Prevent things from bubbling too high. You know.

        • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Unless your small group of friends are billionaire capitalists, I'm sure there's nothing you can do individually to effect the market.

    • regul [any]
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      2 years ago

      to lower property values or to actually provide housing?

      If you wanna lower property values just like, do vandalism. Doesn't really help people much just lowering property values, though.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        hmm do you know of any hoaxes or stuff that would give bad press or make people panic sell, or something?

        • regul [any]
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          2 years ago

          Let's say you manage to accomplish this in a gentrifying neighborhood. All the wealthier people decide to sell their houses and move. Where do you imagine they are moving to?

          My point being that highly-localized action in such an interconnected space like a city or the housing market will always have consequences that manifest elsewhere.