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The Non-capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis

About Here looks at the housing crisis and argues for non-market solutions such as co-op and social housing, drawing on Vancouver's situation. It discusses how public supply can hold down rents.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in housing threads as a decent dive into the problem and possible long-term solutions.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
About Here
Topic
social housing
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2022–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • A recent video on co-op and social housing, that makes simlar points, with the somewhat clickbaity title of: The Non-capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis [VIDEO] The video seems to switch to "non-market" as a description.

    ZeroGravitas on Hacker News · 2022-11
    In The world is run by people no smarter than you

  • That might work for some but moving away from common infrastructure creates other problems. I found this video [0] a decent dive into issues and possible long term solutions. None quick or easy but I think are most likely to succeed in a lot of …

    layoric on Hacker News · 2022-11
    In I hate living in my tiny house (2019)

  • i watched a couple youtubes over the past few months on this -- if you supply at least some public housing, it can have an outsized ability to keep rents down: Bloomberg Originals: Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All [LINK] About Here: The Non-capitalist …

    readonthegoapp on Hacker News · 2023-05
    In Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

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