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Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis (theconversation.com)

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They would (considering a reasonable government) if the problem was not enough houses. Right now there are enough houses, it's just not affordable. So a reasonable government's actions on this situation would have been to heavily tax people/corporations with high number of houses.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Or build more and sell at cost to first time buyers not corporations