Comments by "Praise The Sun" (@Praisethesunson) on "Who Caused the Housing Crisis? with Jerusalem Demsas" video.

  1. Artificially and perniciously paywalling your access to basic necessities like shelter is very profitable. That's why you don't have access to mass public housing
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  2. Thank you for saying this. For all the anti capitalist talk Adam does you'd think that would have a major focus of this very obvious problem
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  3. Vietnam resident here. I pay $1080 per month for a very nice three bedroom two bathroom apartment in the second largest city in the nation. That's an impossible dream for literally everyone that lives in a nation colonized by the British. You can't afford shelter because the rich unilaterally control your housing system. It's that strait forward.
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  4.  @lo-kel  the justification is in their title. LandLORD. That's the only feudal title anyone with a big enough pocket book is allowed to have. Their power only exists because serfs like you have no other option for access to housing.
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  5. You are absolutely right. As long as production is controlled by the rich to make money for the rich. Homeless and starving people must exist.
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  6.  @mazzipizzazz  You described the problem perfectly in less than 3 sentences. Amazing after an hour these two couldn't get to the same point.
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  7. You are priced into the serfdom your country never ended.
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  8. Why? It wouldn't matter how many homes you own if everyone had guaranteed access to mass public housing.
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  9. Exactly right. Tickle down hasn't worked for anything her whole life. But it somehow works for housing? Utterly ridiculous
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  10.  @lo-kel  Shipping people to the middle of nowhere would be barbaric. Imagine, being sent to Nebraska. Shudder
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  11. Canada is one of the largest nations on Earth but it handles housing like it's a frivolous luxury that the rich get to speculate with.
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  12.  @Distortion0  You are 1000% correct. Public housing only existed because America has a big red enemy that guaranteed housing. As soon as they fell, so did U.S interest in housing it's domestic population
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  13.  @kiltedcripple  The reason is you still have a very literally feudal system for housing. Landlord is a feudal title the West never ended.
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  14. America setting the bar so low it's a tripping hazard in hell.
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  15.  @kiltedcripple  You live in an Anglosphere nation. You all have the least knowledge about fedualism(because you live in a society that never ended it) you work more hours per year than a serf. But you have Doritos™. You aren't "tied" to the land. Sure moving out of state costs about a quarter of the average American yearly salary. But you could totally do that if you really wanted. By having a job already lined up of course. Can't leave unless you know there is someone willing to buy you wherever you go. Also the video literally describes people who will never leave their landLORD. Because they like their lord.
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  16.  @anythingoriginal  All of humanity could fit in Nebraska if we lived with slightly less urban density than Tokyo has today. But I'm told being forced to live in Nebraska is a fake worse than death.
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  17. So anything except mass public housing
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  18.  @CaseyWilkesmusic  There's a huge difference between enough for your population and "infinite". America already makes enough food to feed over 1 billion people. Yet over one in 10 Americans are going hungry. Production has never been the issue. Grow up.
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  19.  @CaseyWilkesmusic  A problem that only exists because your access to basic shelter is artificially and perniciously paywalled by private actors whose only goal is personal profit maximizing.
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  20.  @anthonydelfino6171  Singapore, Vietnam, Cuba, Vienna, China, Former Yugoslav nations like Romania all handle housing better than where you live. The state you live in is wealthier than almost all of them combined. You don't have housing because you live under literal lords whose claim to the commodity is housing is treated with more agency than you have guaranteed access to basic shelter. It's not a hard concept to grasp, if you live outside the Anglosphere nations anyway.
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  21.  @CaseyWilkesmusic  There are 14 empty homes for every homeless person in the U.S. What you incorrectly assumed is impossible is already done. You have enough homes. The problem is homeless people existing is why landlords can charge you way more for rent.
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  22. This isn't happening all over the world. This is happening in the Anglosphere nations. Because y'all never had any revolution against landlords.
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  23.  @CarolineIronwill  We are sending you to Nebraska yes. The state only has 3 doctors. But Texaco Mike can handle most social services.
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  24.  @kiltedcripple  You didn't think about it because it's a ridiculous claim. If you had guaranteed access to a cheap safe government owned apartment in any major city in America. All the points brought up in this video would be irrelevant.
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  25.  @anthonydelfino6171  Singapore figured it out. San Francisco can too
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  26. Exactly. These two don't know anything about Singapore and it shows. If that tiny resourceless island can handle housing in a way that isn't based on infinite growth. Every part of America, Canada, U.K, Australia, South Africa can too(they won't because the rich Anglos want you in serfdom)
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  27.  @Kaltag2278  well who doesn't love living the hip bustling environment of, Idaho.
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  28.  @robo5013  You make such clear points there is no way your comment will stay up. But I appreciate the very good answer you gave.
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  29.  @whitneyruckel7643  Enjoy it. Your landlord is going to eventually put ads in your lease.
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  30. Dense urban infill is more environmentally sustainable than suburbia will ever be.
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  31.  @mariusfacktor3597  As someone living in a literal communist state. You have no idea what you are talking about. I live in a nicer place than you ever will for less than $1200 per month. Because the state knows the people being housed is more important than housing being left under the control of line go up capitalism.
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  32. Agreed
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  33. The tenant pays every month for that.
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  34.  @tirsden  you are right. Real estate holdings are being left empty because their value is to avoid tax rather than house people.
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  35.  @anthonydelfino6171  I would never be insane enough to live in America. That's your problem to keep doing nothing about. I'm telling you other places on Earth don't have these problems at all. Try to learn from us instead of thinking someone else will come save you.
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  36.  @TheDoomWizard  You live under capitalism. Unless you rent. Than you live under a literal landlord so you live as a serf.
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  37.  @adambuchbinder2791  You are completely wrong. Suburbia is created and maintained by massive federal subsidy. Your state government is under total control of private economic actors(which is why "states rights" is a mantra for certain politicians. State governments can be cheaply bought) Your local government is most accountable to you and has the least power to act in your interest. If your local government tried to build mass public housing. Your state government would shut it down.
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  38. Thank you for bringing a ray of sanity into this hour+ of neoliberalism.
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  39. Bro you've never been to Vienna and it shows.
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  40.  @rcarloz  You have no clue and it's glaringly obvious. Richest nation in the world and you can't even pretend to imagine guaranteed housing for the populace. My nation is poorer than just California and I know that no matter what happens to me, my friends, family, or literally any stranger I see. We all always have guaranteed access to adequate shelter. Expect better from your society
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  41.  @rcarloz  having a mortgage isn't owning a house. It would be funny you thought that if it wasn't so sad.
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  42.  @rcarloz  That means the vast majority of Americans don't own a home.
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  43. Organize, educate, agitate. The three tools to overthrow your economic overlords
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  44.  @covertpetersen2573  that math works great if you own the land the serfs need for shelter. It's ultra profitable
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  45.  @Stossel  She's literally delusional about it. Very lib brained. I hope she gets a passport one day and visits Vietnam. She needs to experience what's actually possible
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  46.  @CaseyWilkesmusic  You need housing from either a landlord or a bank. You live in a Society that literally offers you no other alternative for guaranteed (temporary) access to basic shelter. They couldn't charge you as much for that "service" if you and the seller both KNEW you had guaranteed access to adequate public housing. The half dozen homeless people you pass on your commute to work are how you know what happens when you don't make your monthly tithe to the bank or your (land)lord.
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  47.  @Elucidator18  she did a terrible job. Housing isn't a complicated problem. You just live in a society that values landLORDS(put some respect on that feudal title) instead of making sure the rabble have access to basic shelter.
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  48. That's a great way to summarize this video
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  49. The federal government IS in charge of urban planning. You'd never know that watching these two. All of American suburbia (even the richest ones you can think of) is entirely dependent on massive federal subsidy through HUD(housing and urban development). If the U.S just diverted the money going to suburbs to building high Density mass public housing in the biggest city in every state. U.S housing would be solved.
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  50.  @Tivis7  Lol my answer to you couldn't make it pass the censors. YouTube wants you to keep smiling while you suffer.
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  51. That's the price you pay for being ruled by the Anglos.
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  52. Hey look on the bright side. Since you are in the U.K. you can take solace that your society makes the largest landlord your literal king.
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  53. "People who own homes don't become communists." -The man who ran the U.S federal housing system and developed single family suburbia in America.
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  54. Exactly. The state will only act in the interest of the rabble if it is forced to.
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  55. ​ @adambuchbinder2791 Without federal subsidy American suburbia would completely collapse inside of a decade. Your local politics has no authority over the vast VAST majority of your life. Yet you incorrectly assume they control your access to housing. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
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  56. Like medieval Florence, you live under a Lord of the land you must pay tithes to in order to maintain your basic shelter. The West never had a revolution against landlords.
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  57. Boomers only got houses because the Soviet Union existed and the head of U.S federal housing that invented and funded suburbia argued "home owners don't become communists".
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  58.  @EngineeredChannel  boomers only got theirs because the Soviet Union existed. Home owners don't become communists was the mantra that made the American government care if people had a place to live.
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  59.  @rcarloz  That means the vast majority of Americans don't own homes. Here's a hint to help you. If you don't pay your mortgage, do you get to keep the house, or even keep staying in it? the answer is no. The bank takes the house and throws you out. You don't own it and never did. A mortgage is just having an even worse landlord. In my country. If I don't pay rent. I can go to government housing whose rent is a very low fixed percentage of my income. If I can't pay it. They don't kick me out. You have nothing like that. It's so sad for you. Your lives are treated so badly and don't even notice.
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  60. Brother there are war torn nations that have nicer, cheaper, guaranteed apartments than anything on offer in America. The system that rules you isn't broken. It's just running exclusively for the wealthy.
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  61. You are absolutely right. but acknowledging the state can solve housing for the public literally tomorrow is ultra hyper communism.
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  62. I'm pretty sure Shipping people to abandoned towns in the middle of nowhere is how Texas happened. That's Definitely a mistake America shouldn't make again.
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  63.  @adambuchbinder2791  yes there is
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  64. Which all results in humanity being damned
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  65.  @BrightBlueJim  democracy doesn't matter when it comes to single family homes existing(single family homes are a federal housing policy with tons of money to subsidize them). Yet suddenly America democracy matter when it's to maintain a system that keeps the majority of Americans from owning a home? Seems pretty sus to me
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  66. Okay I'll bite. How does Jerusalem explain the housing issue?
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  67. Is this Canada or the U.K?
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  68.  @dreich1000  Bruh you live under a society where the largest landlord is your literal king. I'm honestly shocked you Brits tolerate it.
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  69.  @pawpkitty  it's almost like the system you live under doesn't want you to own a home.
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  70.  @lucristianx  The city council denied it and the federal government doesn't care about that decision. Huge difference. The feds can step in tomorrow and force that apartment in. It'll never happen. But the tool of power exists in the hands of the federal government today.
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  71. ​ @MassJass Bruh there are literal war torn nations with fewer homeless people than every single Nation the British run/ran. Homeless people in your society exist because artificially and perniciously restricting access to housing is really profitable.
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  72. If you don't smile your economic rulers can't pretend they are doing such a great job while they exploit you.
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  73. ​ @MassJass Dude you are slaying in the comments here. Well done.
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  74. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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  75. ​ @CarolineIronwill you will go to gulag in Arkansas comrade and you will like it.
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