It occurs to me that there's a certain demographic going "we cannot possibly afford to build *good* social housing, then everybody will want a three bedroom with a garden and we can't afford that as a country, so it should just all be simple apartment blocks instead"
And meanwhile I see tons of people going "I'm glad I don't have a garden to maintain" and "this is way too much house for me, I want something smaller", and
@joepie91 I don't really care what we build for housing as long as it's safe, accessible, and has the essentials.
We just need a lot more of it so everyone everywhere has a safe home.
Maybe once everyone has a home we can figure out how to raise the baseline and build even better ones in the future.
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@matoakit The problem is that the rhetoric I'm mentioning is always the pretext to "... and therefore we should let nice homes be handled by the private housing market", which has classist outcomes
There is no dichotomy between "getting everybody a home" and "getting people nice homes", it's the same problem, the supposed dichotomy is entirely right-wing framing
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@joepie91 Exactly so!