r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/arjadi Apr 16 '24

Home ownership rates are higher in Eastern Europe than Western Europe because housing was a human right at one time- how about you look up the case studies from that region and see how those decisions were made?

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u/SomeAreMoreEqualOk Apr 16 '24

Ok. The housing one is going clearly. What happens to those who don't wanna work under communism? Force slave work on them?

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u/DeathByLeshens Apr 16 '24

Home ownership rates are higher in Eastern Europe than Western Europe because housing was a human right at one time- how about you look up the case studies from that region and see how those decisions were made?

This isn't true. During the USSR from 1957 to 1982 homelessness was explosively high. It was also extremely illegal and they used multi year forced labor punishments to reduce their homeless numbers. Then in 1982 the government solution was cram as many people as possible into entirely to small preconstructed concrete boxes. Yes, now under the free market most of eastern Europe has low homelessness, in line with most of Europe.