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What are you on? There is no grand conspiracy. A city is much easier to manage than a big ass country and an authoritarian government has the power to carry out it's plans while giving zero fucks about the people. People don't realize that Singapore is one of the most authoritarian developed countries out there. In Singapore, all land is held by the state, people cannot own any property, they can only lease it from the government kind of like China. Neighborhoods have very strict ethnic quotas. For example, if you're ethnically Chinese and want to live in a neighborhood that is already 85% Chinese? Well tough luck because you're legally not allowed to buy there until that percentage comes down. Because everything is publicly owned, the government is in charge of maintenance, and a good chunk of the buildings aren't well maintained. You can't complain about it because Singapore is authoritarian. You also can't complain about the location or the design of the buildings because the governments gets decide all of that. What's more is that a lot of these projects are built on top Singaporean cultural and historical sites, which a lot of Singaporeans argue is an erasure of their culture. Despite all of these problems, their system works because their government is authoritarian, the city is small enough to be effectively managed, they've lucked out with a series of competent leaders. If any of three things isn't present, you'll have a recipe for disaster. Want an example? Just take a look at the Soviet Union.
You are spending a lot afford here proving what is essentially... SG can only do it because they care to do it, in my country we fuck poor's due to our superior political and economic system.
Thank you for making my point for me about how shiti our regime is lol
Anyway who cares, I got decent housing.
Fuck poor, stupid and homeless!!! Prolly asked for it anyway. Should be thank full we allow them to exist under our great regime!
Freedom rheeeeeee
This is such juvenile take. We're not going to turn our country into an authoritarian technocracy to implement a solution that is almost guaranteed to fail anywhere outside of an authoritarian city state. Singapore is not a model for any country, they are the anomaly in the world. We can't copy and paste. Other countries have tried the same idea and they all have failed. Romania, the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, China, etc. Our housing solution can't be built on childish ideals, they have to be pragamtic and they have to take into account our political system, our culture, our strengths, and our problems. When we look into our own history, we can see that we already solved our housing crises multiple times before. When there's a housing shortage, we have incentivize the market to flood the market with new units. This will drive down prices and increase inventory, which is exactly what we need. It's a tried and true method. The adjustments we need to make are basic too, we just have update our zoning laws remove outdated restrictions that outlaw mixed zoning and multifamily housing, as well as give local and regional municipalities more power and flexibility to design towns and cities around more than just cars.
Nobody is disputing what the solution is... the issue that the regime will not allow any of this happen.
I don't see how that's a conspiracy since it it is happening before out eyes. Give some limp services about 5 "affordable" units in 1000 unit lux condo. That's where we are at now.
Fun fact: vast majority people in Romania own their property outright.
Also, you listed those countries, which clearly indicatives you don't know their history or housing situation. You are enumerating random shit to prove a point lol
Change doesn't happen over night, especially in democracies. The system is supposed to be slow and steady. Our zoning laws started taking place around 100 years ago and then we spent the next century building our towns, cities, and culture around them. We can't reverse all of this overnight, this requires a long term national effort. The Suburban house became the American dream, it became an American icon, it became the standard. It was was and still is so desirable that it became the biggest asset for most families, and this led to it's own wave of restrictive and discriminatory zoning laws. It took the housing crash in 2008 for us to revisit our zoning laws and look at them critically, and after a decade of criticism and effort, we've only started seeing reforms on local and state levels in the past 5 or so years. We've still got a long way to go to meaningful national change, but we're heading in the right direction. You just have to vote for the candidates that will make the changes and tell people about the problems with out zoning laws, because most people don't even know.
Developers keep building these ultra luxury condo towers because they're only ones our zoning laws allow to be economically viable. There's a reason why this country only has two extremes between massive skyscrapers and single family homes, while most other countries have an in between.
Yeah now because they've made reforms to allow for ownership back in the 90s. During the communist era, people couldn't own land.
I guess we fundamentally agree where we are at, except you have more optimism about ability to change the system. Not gonna shit on that, I want that change but also, nothing is getting better and it is getting worse for most people.
I highly doubt anything will get better within our life time, maybe in 20-30 years, best case.
Boomers build this world for us, so this is what it is.
Best we can do, is build a better one for our kids.
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I genuinely believe that big change isn't that far into the future. Completely revamping the country to go back to dense cities and towns that aren't dependent on cars is a long term thing, but seeing a housing boom is something that can happen within the next few years. I mean the hard part is just getting those laws updated. Once they are and developers are incentivized to build more homes, multifamily homes, and mixed zoned buildings they would get right to it. We're getting to a point where we're starting to see real change in a lot cities and even some states:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning#Rezoning_efforts_(2018-present)
I mean California, the biggest state in the country effectively eliminated single family zoning statewide. We're also seeing change in conservative and liberal states. I'm hoping these changes yield positive results that will lead to a wave that will eventually lead to changes at the national level. Kind of like how it happened with gay marriage recently or is happening right now with marijuana legalization and the minimum wage.