With over 600k homeless Americans, couch surfing and sleeping outside tonight, this is important to understand
With over 600k homeless Americans, couch surfing and sleeping outside tonight, this is important to understand
that fact that we more empty homes degrading from abandonment into nothingness in this country than homeless people is surest sign that we have terrible system.
Not sure which country you're referring to.
In September 2023, He Keng, a former deputy head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that unfinished and finished-but-vacant apartment projects in China could conceivably house the entire Chinese population of 1.4 billion. (1)
there are more vacant homes that homeless people in my country and that fact is so incendiary to our sensibilities that it enshitifies things like google so; when you look up this fact; all of the results are going to lead you to explanations as to why it's misleading and that there aren't enough "appropriate" homes for homeless people.
all of the articles are hoping couch the unspoken classism divisions as "nuanced arguments" so when they say that there aren't enough "appropriate" homes for homeless people; it's dog-whistle-implying that homeless people don't deserve the same desirable homes that can earn profit for the capitalists and that it's the state's responsibility to "deal" with them; amongst other dog whistles.
In my building, half the units are just sitting here empty. Guess what country the owner is from?
Doesn't really matter what country the owner is from. What matters is that the country that contains the houses allows houses to be bought and sold purely for investment. Focusing on who is buying and selling them is barking up the wrong tree. If it wasn't them it would be someone else, because it's the system that's the problem. Go be racist somewhere else. Or just don't be racist at all.
My president
People sleeping in front of buildings and socialized housing lower property value, I bet if we filled the walls with homeless people it would raise it
How many mainlander chinese camping their money in other countries' real estate to keep it outta your hands, Winnie?
It would be great if we had laws which stopped people from doing that (both our own citizens and foreign). I want landleeches to scatter from here just like they did from China. No home for house hoarders.
Fewer and fewer all the time, western propaganda regurgitater. China has been cracking down on the leeches (Billionaires) in their country.
But ze jobs creators, illiberalism!
doesn't take much to get that racism to pop out, does it?
Isn't the housing situation significantly worse in China? You put entire down payments and then pay the mortgage for the house to still yet be built. And last year so many defaults happened that no houses were being built and no one was being returned their money when they wanted out.
The grass is not greener on their side. It's still fucked, just a different fucked.
90% of families in China own their home, with 80% of these homes are owned outright. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes
Those are the speculative houses xi is arguing against here. China doesn't have involuntary homeless, that's mainly why 'ghost' cities were built. Now the private housing market is fucked right now, and there's a good chance there will never be privately built homes again in China. But that has nothing to do with the housing supply, and does not affect homeownership or housing rates
they're made to last 50 years. Expensive houses are falling apart
Didn't China just had a huge crisis in the property market?
Property speculation crashed. It wasn't a homelessness crisis, but an intentional popping of a speculative bubble because Capitalists got greedy and homes were too expensive.
So China tried the same formula as the west than, let the capitalists steer the housing market?
It seems they overbuilt on purpose, which seems like a great idea if you care more about shelter for the population than the financial wellbeing of the speculators.
Im not sure we should be listening to this guy of all people, but i cosign the message still
Im not sure we should be listening to this guy
Why?
-Weaponizing tiktok to try and make his own people more educated and the rest of everyone stupid -Putting stupid laws disabling teens from playing videogames more than like a couple hrs a week -The whole thing where any chinese owned company has to report to ccp and lie if ever investigated -Didnt he call Islam a mental disease and put muslims in concentration camps? I agree with the first part but locking ppl up and torturing them is crazy -You know, the whole great firewall of china where you cant watch content from huge paltforms like youtube, arent religious books like quran and bible banned too? Imagine a world leader being so insecure you gotta ban a teddy bear cus you look like him😭
I could probably think of a bunch more or look some up, trust me, this guy aint it.
I wonder how many houses this guy own
What an odd thing to wonder. Do you see Chinese state functionaries tooling around the world in megayachts?
What does a house have to do with a yacht though? Not everyone sails the open seas.
Seems to me that the fact that 90% of families in China own their home, with 80% of these homes are owned outright is a more important thing to focus on. That's just me though.
