Build, baby, build.
  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 months ago

    At the Republican National Convention last month, Ohio Sen. JD Vance even offered a radical solution to the crisis.

    His plan, and Trump’s, was to free up housing stock by deporting 11 million people.

    Yeah this isn’t a plan, you don’t have to frame it as a plan. It’s literally “all your problems are minorities fault.” It’s a racist dogwhistle sounding like a bullhorn.

    • Pandemanium@lemm.ee
      17·
      11 months ago

      A lot of cities have started regulating (or even outright banning) Airbnbs. Get your neighbors on board and start a dialogue with your city council members.

      There’s not a lot you can do about corporations, but you can encourage other owners not to sell to shell companies.

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      So just because this one thing won’t solve the problem on its own we shouldn’t do it. More housing, and especially more affordable housing will help by virtue of creating more supply, and the alternative is building less new housing which has the exact same problem as what you bring up with building more. On top of that corporations and landlords and Airbnb “investors” don’t purchase all the housing that is available right now, so even if the rate at which that occurred stayed the same in absolute terms this would mean a lot more housing becoming available to actual residents.

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
    99·
    11 months ago

    More housing is exactly what America desperately needs right now, and hearing Harris say this makes me want to vote for her.

    But I still need to hear that she’s going to do something about Israel.