> this is a better solution
Public housing is very good, but I want to encourage a mindset shift. There are many plausible housing policies, and they are not in competition with each other. We should have public housing and we should follow the neoliberal abundance agenda and we should implement a LVT and we should do many other things. None of these policies somehow makes it difficult to implement the others. There's no tension. If anything they work in harmony. A LVT can be used to fund public housing, and neoliberal deregulations will also assist in making public housing cheaper for the taxpayer in terms of land use efficiency. If we care about housing, we need to get over these factional battles that only serve the landowning class.
this is very valid point! i agree. but some ideas are bad, like LVT, which will not make housing cheaper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44532444