1. La Desigualdad como Causa Fundamental de la Crisis de Vivienda.
La mayoría de las voces en la discusión coinciden en que la desigualdad de riqueza e ingresos no es un problema secundario, sino la raíz de la crisis de vivienda. Se argumenta que la incapacidad de las personas para permitirse una vivienda no se debe a una escasez inherente, sino a un sistema económico que concentra la riqueza y distorsiona el mercado.
- If the underlying problem is wealth inequality, you cant build low income housing fast enough to get ahead of rich people making poor people homeless.
- Cost of living crisis and housing affordability is due to massive wealth inequality. Tax wealth, not work.
- This just may be implicated in the inability of people to buy their own homes. Clue its not a housing crisis. Its an inequality crisis.
- You cannot address affordability in housing without addressing inequality. Any effort which does will be doomed to fail as americans buying power continues to shrink.
- A study from ucla came out recently demonstrating that economic inequality, not supply restraints, have caused the housing crisis.
- Income wealth inequality is the root of the housing problem, and most of our problems.
2. Consecuencias de la Desigualdad en la Asequibilidad y la Falta de Vivienda.
La concentración de riqueza permite a los más ricos y a las corporaciones adquirir propiedades como activos de inversión, inflando artificialmente los precios y superando la capacidad de compra de la gente común. Esto resulta en una vivienda inasequible para muchos, desalojos masivos y un aumento alarmante de la población sin hogar.
- Just reading the abstract, income drives housing prices, which means that income inequality creates the situation where housing is unaffordable for huge numbers of people.
- We are seeing record inequality the top 20 own 63 of housing wealth. The bottom 40? 2. This is about systemic oppression and access to power. And its producing mass eviction and homelessness.
- Wealth inequality inflates assets which is why many jobs dont pay enough to live on and why home ownership is becoming impossible.
- There are 16 million empty homes yet there are only 0.5 million homeless. Homelessness and un affordability are a wealth inequality problem.
- People are becoming homeless, not because there arent enough houses, but the cost of housing is unaffordable based on the incomes this cohort of people are receiving.
- The rich having too much money to throw around is why housing is unaffordable.
3. La Vivienda como Multiplicador de la Desigualdad Social.
Más allá de ser una consecuencia, la vivienda actúa como un mecanismo que amplifica la desigualdad. La posesión de propiedades se convierte en una fuente principal de acumulación de riqueza para los propietarios, mientras que los inquilinos transfieren constantemente sus ingresos a grupos más ricos, perpetuando un ciclo de disparidad económica y social.
- Yes, the whole residential property and housing ladder thing is creating injustice and inequality on a grand scale.
- The median homeowner has 40x the wealth of the median renter. If we dont pass pro-housing and pro-tenant policies this has plenty of room to get worse!
- Real estate increases social inequality homeowners get wealthier by simply owning and that rents increase social inequality renters give their money to wealthier people.
- Housing policy is inequality. If rents werent so high, people would have money to spend in their communities and support the economy.
- Housing has become a primary engine of inequality, reinforcing divisions between the asset-haves and have-nots.
- The commodification of houses into a vehicle for accumulating hoarding wealth has exacerbated inequality and allowed property developers, real estate agents and investors to profit from denying working people the dignity of homeownership.
4. Estrategias y Debates en Torno a la Solución.
Existe un debate activo sobre las soluciones. Algunos proponen aumentar la oferta de viviendas, mientras que otros argumentan que esto es insuficiente sin abordar la desigualdad subyacente. Se sugieren medidas como impuestos a la riqueza, regulación de alquileres, inversión en vivienda social y políticas que desincentiven la especulación inmobiliaria, reconociendo que la solución requiere un enfoque multifacético y una voluntad política para desafiar los intereses establecidos.
- Its not just wealth inequality. Restrictive zoning, nimbyism, and unwillingness to allow higher densities puts entry-level housing out of reach.
- Im intensely on team build more housing, of course and i know you are too, but i also think that the extreme wealth inequality is totally market-distorting in ways we dont usually talk about.
- Yes, but is more housing the solution to unaffordable housing? rising inequality means the super rich are desperate for assets, and housing is a favourite.
- Tax wealth not work reduce inequality and fix the housing crisis by doubling the federal housing funding levels from the pre-1990s to make up for over 2 decades of neglect.
- The thought that you can fix housing inequality by building more housing, when the problem is that rich people are buying up all of the assets and the average person cant afford the cheapest units available, is like fixing a casino by giving more chips to people already winning.
- We fix housing shortages by building housing. We fix inequality by taxing the wealthy. Responding to inequality with sumptuary laws does nothing to provide housing to those who need it.