> Why should housing not be to governed by market forces?
Housing can and should of course be managed by market forces. Land usage rights distribution is where the problem lies.
For physical reasons there is no supply of new land. We'd have to wait until Mars or Moon colonization, which would pop the ongoing land price inflation.
Until then it's just a market in which the sooner you get in the better off you'll be. Which is why older generations and aristocracy benefit from such arrangement.
Later generations are just told to shut up and accept that you have to slave more and more each decade to be afford living. Until a revolution of some sort.
The funny thing is the misnomer 'to own land'. The only thing you own is a right to use the parcel, which is guaranteed by no one else but the population. And the population is not paid to provide such a service.
Payment for actual usage on ongoing basis is a solution. Such as land tax or government lease.
Worked wonders in countries founded on this principle.
Housing can and should of course be managed by market forces. Land usage rights distribution is where the problem lies.
For physical reasons there is no supply of new land. We'd have to wait until Mars or Moon colonization, which would pop the ongoing land price inflation.
Until then it's just a market in which the sooner you get in the better off you'll be. Which is why older generations and aristocracy benefit from such arrangement.
Later generations are just told to shut up and accept that you have to slave more and more each decade to be afford living. Until a revolution of some sort.
The funny thing is the misnomer 'to own land'. The only thing you own is a right to use the parcel, which is guaranteed by no one else but the population. And the population is not paid to provide such a service.
Payment for actual usage on ongoing basis is a solution. Such as land tax or government lease.
Worked wonders in countries founded on this principle.
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