i think you're giving too much credit to the efficiency of the free market.

essentially, once people rent their homes from private landlords, they'll be comfortable and have a tendency to stay, even if they could get cheaper rates elsewhere. landlords use that fact to systematically overcharge.

"suffering builds character"

the economy has to do fine again first, otherwise i can't relax enough to enjoy this.

In the economy, every middleman eats a part of the gains. If you have private landlords buying up houses constructed by the city, that then rent them out to poor people, you make up completely unnecessary middlemen. cutting them out saves a lot of the cost, i predict. especially in cities, where people typically rent. maybe it wouldn't work in rural areas.

i don't get it, explanation?

whoa you must've been really good, how much detail there's in the background, truly amazing :P

yeah but he doesn't die, so in a sense it's imagined, because if the eagle was really eating his liver, he'd obviously die. so, he just experiences it as if an eagle was eating his liver.

solution is clearly to undress

sry a bit more than 1

finally a place to dump my memes

Each one has to be valued independently

i guess therein lies part of the problem. since each house is a bit different, there's no economies of scale, and that's a large part of the reason why housing is so expensive.

i'm in favor of the city building a million homes and renting them out at non-profit rates. people joke and say it looks ugly, but ask homeless people: would you rather be homeless or live in a soviet-style building? i haven't done the experiment but i suggest that 90% of homeless people would rather not be homeless.

just as a rough idea: i saw a documentary about eastern germany (back when it was still sovjet) the other day and it casually mentioned that rent was around $60 per month (in 2019 dollars) (yes, you read that right). rent was incredibly cheap. though i'm not sure whether it was only the economies of scale or also some subsidies through the government.

no u'r a good girl <3