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Isn’t “profiting off of owning a home” one of the main reasons why housing is a problem right now?
but when I profit it'll be good /s
There are multiple housing problems and they're all probably way more complicated than anyone wants to acknowledge. The highest priority "housing problem" right now imo is that there are people who don't have a safe place to sleep at night.
In order to solve that problem you need
Building/acquiring housing costs money. If the government isn't doing its job and spending money to solve this problem we need to
Creating a system to assign individuals to housing is probably the more "difficult" part because there needs to be some sort of consensus on the mechanics of prioritization. I personally think we should prioritize housing for individuals and families with children, but after that I don't know who we should serve next.
Communal housing world solve many problems.