48
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] assembly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

So let’s game out what this could look like. If the US instituted housing as a right, there would be a constitutional push to provide a minimum of housing for all citizens. The approach would be of concern on this. Would it be a Medicare type of push or private healthcare type of push. If a public service, there would be minimal standards for housing and the purchasing of land along with possibly some eminent domain to provide housing of decent standards and in appropriate proximity to places where people want and need to be. If this is done via private enterprise with public money, we end up with a single 10x10 room in the middle of the desert and shared bathroom across 50 residents and possibly double ply cardboard for walls. I guarantee that if this is done as a public/private partnership that the private prison industry makes a proposal that is super cost effective to provide housing to large segments of unhoused Americans. We need both housing as a right and for it to be handled not terribly.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

why the fuck are you talking about the usa?

[-] assembly@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

LOL that’s my bad man. I was browsing All and didn’t realize this was an Australian subscription…we have the same issues here in the USA so I didn’t even think to check and just assumed it was a US group as non US tends to be in a different language. Apologies.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

That's a very usaian opinion.

this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
48 points (91.4% liked)

Australia

3533 readers
156 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS