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  • You’re comparing apples and oranges. The apples being the capitalist housing market, and the oranges being the entire housing economy. Across the entire housing economy, demand is the same. It’s just that more of the demand is being met by socialised supply. So no, in terms of the entire housing supply, this proposal doesn’t limit demand.





  • When more homeless people are in public housing, there’s less demand for rentals.

    When there’s less demand for rentals, competition falls and rents fall too.

    When rents are low, landlording becomes less profitable.

    When landlording isn’t profitable, investors move their stock to higher growth assets.

    When investors sell their houses, the price to buy a house falls.

    To put this in simple terms: a rising tide lifts all ships. Housing the homeless improves the lives of everyone except landlords and billionaires.


  • The soulists want to abolish gravity and make the laws of physics into suggestions. The flat earthers think Newtonian physics are a conspiracy by the government to hide the truth.

    Any example of an apolitical thing you can give, I can explain why it’s political.

    Things like the abolition of capitalism aren’t serious business because they’re political. They’re serious business because they have huge consequences. You’re missing the reason they matter, and that’s a problem we can solve by admitting everything is political.