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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Government really should be building housing themselves though and working on the zoning laws to make building easier. Even in a free market the government should be a competitor driving prices down to fair levels.

    Measures like rent control don’t work because landlords are greedy. People end up staying in locations that don’t fit them anymore for the rent control, landlords try to chase those tenants away and don’t improve the property, new housing stops being developed and supply/demand get wrecked.

    Measures like stimulus and tax rebates for first time buyers tends to increase the cost of real estate as well. It’s called a demand subsidy and generally isn’t a great way to tackle a supply problem. The individual home buyers will be helped at the expense of tax payer money and real estate cost - and the types of homes being bought aren’t necessarily the best use of land either depending.

    Restricting companies from bulk purchasing and holding real estate seems like a good idea but again when you remove that new housing, especially multi-tenant housing, stops being built. Supply goes down prices shoot up…unless of course the government is willing to personally finance and build out the supply and keep prices fair.



  • Bluesky/twitter/etc are person centric - you follow the person

    Lemmy/reddit/etc are topic centric - you follow a community

    It makes sense for blocking on Bluesky to completely hide you, you’ve severed the person - person relationship.

    On Lemmy severing a person - person relationship shouldn’t disadvantage the user from interacting with the community. Communities don’t want duplicate posts so if you post some big news in a popular community now all the users you’ve blocked would be cut off from that content. Their personal beef with you shouldn’t disadvantage them in the communities this way.