• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    We need:

    -limit 1 house per family

    -serious rent control

    -4-storey apartments built owned by the public and cooperatives

    -Stronger renter protections

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      27 days ago

      When new builds are all mcmansions from developers with deep, unethical, ties to politicians it doesn’t really help much either.

      Looking at you Doug Ford.

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      27 days ago

      Can you explain what you mean by

      -limit 1 house per family

      Many of the times I’ve heard this sentiment, it’s been to either ban Mom&Pop landlords, or ban rental houses completely. These options seem to benefit potential homeowners by screwing over renters. I’m not sure if you mean something different?

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        26 days ago

        “apartments built by thr public or coops” is right there. Don’t look at a package proposal and treat each part of it as unrelated or judge it in a vacuum.

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          26 days ago

          I am fully supportive of public housing and coops, but that doesn’t explain how a “limit 1 house per family” rule would work or what it’s intending to achieve. If you or @Sunshine@lemmy.ca want to expand on that you can even explain it in the context of a whole system, I’m happy to hear it. I am a policy wonk and just want to understand this proposal.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            26 days ago

            You’re probably just going to get flamed here. Most political people (and activists for that matter) are not policy wonks.

            They’re probably thinking a ban on landlords, as currently legally defined, basically.

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      26 days ago

      That’s a lot of 4-story apartments, since that’s the main thing that will actually get built under this scheme. I guess it worked okay in the USSR, but Soviet citizens definitely did complain about the lack of other options for living arrangement.

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          24 days ago

          Probably not - social criticism had to be subtle or the KGB would have words with you. The theme makes it’s way into various works of art, though, like Enjoy Your Bath.