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1. soonnow · 1789971698 · focus · HN ↗

   To add a b it of context. They do not want to confiscate housing. They do want to pay landlords, though below current (very high) rates. Also this would only apply to private real-estate companies not individual owners.

   And they can't govern alone, so I think it's unlikely that this plan is actually implemented as originally planned. The likely coalition would contain 3 parties.

   1. dirasieb · 1789972590 · focus · HN ↗

      >it's not confiscation, you're just forced to sell at a price i decide is fair

      sound logic

      1. 4gotunameagain · 1789972887 · focus · HN ↗

         The "free market" (which has been demonstrated to not be free at all) has no place in basic needs such as housing.

         Rent extraction is utterly counterproductive for a society.

         Housing should not be a commodity.

         1. tirant · 1789976434 · focus · HN ↗

            The only reason you enjoy cheap food is because of the free market.

            Housing in many countries is not part of a free market but part of a monopoly where the government decides how much, how many, the what and the when the houses can be built. If it was a real free market, the issue would have been long solved.

            1. 4gotunameagain · 1789977421 · focus · HN ↗

               The only reason I enjoy cheap food is the industrialisation of agriculture and the subsequent increase in yields.

               P.s. the EU already decides how much, how many, what and when will be planted, through subsidising. And it's going quite well.

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