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A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars
(hechingerreport.org)
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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if this were a socialist country, rent would be abolished and everyone would be living comfortably. would socialism/communism help reduce homelessness and such?
Not in the long term, because owning a house is not free. The houses would fall apart after a few years without money for maintenance, repairs or upgrades. Any expenses that come with house ownership are paid by rent. My parents own their house that was build maybe 120 years ago, and every 10 years or so there is some expensive bill because something needs modernisation or repairs like roof, windows, plumbing, power, facade, wet basement, heating, ...
Ignoring the equity you gain when you're paying down a mortgage on a house.
Just ... No.
That was not the question. While still being cheaper than rent because nobody is trying to profit from you living there, getting the roof fixed, 15 new insulated windows installed, 1900s electric grid replaced did cost them more than 10k euros each time, for which they had to take out a credit.