Comment by Retric
2 years ago
The US has major issues with the state as landlord but other counties pull it off fairly well. That suggests me it’s the US that has the problem not the approach of having the government involved that’s at issue.
The US seems to default to doing the worst possible solution. Take long term rent control and private ownership, because like seriously WTF??? That’s literally combining the worst aspects of communism and capitalism.
Other countries that pull it off do so in extremely YIMBY ways: they simply build enough housing that market rents fall.
This debate over "public housing" vs "more landlords" is kind of dumb; both operate by increasing the supply of housing and rely on fundamental market factors to work.