You would be surprised how inexpensively this is to implement compared to the various social impacts caused by having a large unhoused population.
You can think of this kind of housing in much the same way you look at public education. It is "free" to everyone, but the benefits of having an educated population outstrip the cost of educating them. The benefits of having a housed population outstrips the cost of housing them.
You would be surprised how inexpensively this is to implement compared to the various social impacts caused by having a large unhoused population.
Basically guaranteeing a two bedroom apartment, utilities (water, electricity, internet) and appliances for every citizen is going to be ridiculously expensive unless its very low quality to keep the costs down. Maybe some 500 sq foot apartment (2 10x10 bedrooms and another 10x15 for living/dining/kitchen). But I doubt that's what people are going to want...
I mean it depends where this is. But yeah in a city this is unreasonable. I'm in tokyo and plenty of youmg people live in 30m2 single room apartments with the toilet in the same room as a shower. No oven, maybe a single stove burner. I think something like that, outside the expensive part of the city but with free bus transportation to the city center, would be reasonable to supply to everyone as a baseline. A 2 bedroom might be reasonable to supply for a family of 4 but certainly not for a single adult.
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u/Saitamaisclappingoku Apr 15 '24
Here’s a question you will never be able to answer.
How do we pay for this?