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Date: 2020-12-09 01:17 pm (UTC)In order to build 300,000 houses a year the government would need to borrow, roughly £30bn a year. (That's about the Scottish Government budget as a context reference).
The rent on that public housing would pay the interest on the public borrowing and at some point mid-century when the economy was booming some of the housing and the government wanted to take some inflationary cash out of the system some of it could be sold off.
The massive shift in power towards the worker by providing mass public housing would address a raft of dodgy labour practices whilst moving millions of people out of poverty. A similar impact would occur on dodgy landlords.
The Kenysian stimulus would be very welcome in 2025-2035.
Those houses could be built to excellent Green housing standards and avoid green house gas emissions and the capital costs of energy infrastructure.
If you were really feeling radical instead of central government doing the borrowing and building you could delegate the power and the fiscal authority to local governments.
And the politics seem very, very easy. At least for a Labour government/
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Date: 2020-12-09 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-09 01:29 pm (UTC)God help us, I've been there. :o(
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Date: 2020-12-09 05:10 pm (UTC)