Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

Last RT: Good article to read next time an affluent white liberal tells you they only support public #housing, not evil developers or market-driven solutions to the #housingcrisis. #LandValueTaxSolvesThis. #LVT #YIMBY #BuildMoreHousing #WeMustMakeLandCommonProperty #🔰

There is *no such thing* as "left-NIMBY". #NIMBYism is the very definition of "right wing"—defense of the landed class. Read your political history.

Jan 14, 2023 at 7:55pmWeb
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jan 14, 2023
The state does not really need to be in the business of providing housing. It needs to be in the business of ensuring equitable distribution of the land values which are created solely by the aggregate competitive demand of the community, and therefore are rightly community property.
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jan 14, 2023

This does not mean there is no place at all for public housing, or that the state should not involve itself as a market participant under any circumstances. It's fine for the state to enter the market, so long as by so doing, it does not create any artificial monopoly for itself.

There are markets in which the state has a natural competitive advantage, and there are markets where it does not. But the "free" market is never truly free, so there are market needs which only the state can meet.