Keep being a shill for private developers!

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They have built the vast majority of housing that exists in America!
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But, you work for a VC, so keep enjoying the sweet capitalism.
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Functioning social democracies all use a managed & democratically accountable form of capitalism. Non-capitalist countries? Uh... Venezuela?
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Social democracy is an improvement. Those counties tend to create a lot of public housing, too. Moving away from private development is good
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There are examples of high-functioning public housing systems in Singapore/Austria. But nothing in American history, and its common law
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system, derived from Medieval England & centered around strong property rights, suggests that it is capable of successfully implementing it
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There is no magic ghost of common law preventing us from doing that. It's a political decision to favor private profit & punish the poor.
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the issue is that most of the land is already privately owned. London could do council flats en masse & bc it was bombed out after WWII.
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The http://U.S.is perfectly comfortable using eminent domain. It just only uses it to make rich people richer.
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when has eminent domain been used in recent history in California?
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SF used it, or at least the threat of it, as recently as the Yerba Buena redevelopment. CA uses it all the time. It's an active tool.
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