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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 12:11:16 JST iced depresso

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   • Strypey
   @strypey i think that one depends on who you ask. USSR housing was intended to be cheap for the state and to get people panelled up in housing. USian housing is some mishmash of well intending people starting a project and a pool of sharks competing to embezzle as much of the money without setting off riots
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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 12:11:17 JST Strypey

     "The original premise of state housing was that it would be transitory, to help people through difficult circumstances."

     #PeterDunne, 2025

     https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2501/S00045/dunnes-weekly-act-looks-backwards.htm

     This is fantasy. The original premise of state housing was that it would provide secure, lifelong housing, for the family of any worker who couldn't afford to buy their own home. Public #housing as the accommodation equivalent of an unemployment benefit is a much more recent ideology, an artifact born of Rogernomics and Ruthenasia.