1. La Vivienda como Derecho Humano vs. Inversión.
Una corriente principal en el debate exige que la vivienda sea tratada como un derecho humano básico y no como una oportunidad de inversión o una mercancía sujeta a la especulación del mercado.
- Housing is a right, not a commodity.
- Housing is a basic human right not an investment opportunity.
- Housing is the foundational human right. The ability to reliably provide every other human right is built upon it.
- Housing should exist only to be lived in, not to make a profit from.
2. Especulación, Asequibilidad y Críticas al Capitalismo.
Se critica que el sistema capitalista actual es incompatible con la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas de las personas, permitiendo que corporaciones y propietarios lucren excesivamente con el refugio, lo que lleva a la crisis de asequibilidad.
- In the wealthiest nation in human history, willmust be illegal to profit excessively from shelter while americans are homeless.
- You can have for-profit housing, or housing people can actually afford to live in.
- We need better, stronger land taxes to prevent the hoarding of housing and profiteering.
- Over half 55.2 per cent of toronto condos built from 2016 to 2020 were used as investment properties so its not about building more housing.
3. La Retórica Antiinmigrante y el Concepto de "Derecho por Ciudadanía".
Políticos de derecha, como JD Vance, han utilizado la crisis de vivienda para promover narrativas nativistas, culpando a los inmigrantes por "tomar casas que por derecho deberían ir a los ciudadanos americanos," una afirmación ampliamente rechazada como propaganda racista y sin base lógica.
- A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to american citizens.
- The magacity of blaming illegal immigrants for taking away housing that ought by right go to american citizens, when we live in a country that doesnt believe housing is a human right to begin with.
- By right? vance believes us citizens have a right to affordable housing? he does not believe that, hes race baiting.
- Right. Its the immigrants and not all corporations buying up investment homes left and right. Im always offended by how these guys just assume were all as stupid as their base.
4. NIMBYism, Políticas de Zonificación y Soluciones.
La resistencia local (NIMBYism) a la construcción de viviendas más densas y asequibles es identificada como un obstáculo clave. Las soluciones propuestas incluyen la inversión en vivienda social, la regulación de alquileres y la simplificación de permisos de construcción (by-right).
- The most obvious remedy is to build more middlelower middle class residences in high cost areas. But right away, that runs hard into nimbyism.
- Allow single-family home conversion to duplex or triplex, by right. Permit backyard cottages in all residential zones. Legalize starter homes in all residential zones. Eliminate minimum lot size requirements in existing neighborhoods. Repeal parking zoning.
- Rent control and strong tenant protections can protect hard-working people against predatory corporate landlords.
- Right-nimbys already have what they want, which is the ability to institute zoning that excludes poorer people from their neighborhoods.