• getoffthatchronic@lemdro.id
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      What happened to Soviet and Cuban property law prior to workers en masse gaining the ability to buy a vacation home for their family? Do you think that the US land system can just be loosened up to allow poors into it? That goes contrary to its pricing through scarcity…

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        Do you think that the US land system can just be loosened up to allow poors into it? That goes contrary to its pricing through scarcity…

        Practically speaking, the vast majority of Americans are housed already. They simply don’t own those dwellings. It would be easy (and completely uncontroversial, at least among proletarians) to expropriate those dwellings and turn them over to their residents. Regarding unhoused people, it’s a well-established fact that they are massively outnumbered by empty dwellings being held as speculative real-estate assets, which should also be expropriated. I don’t really see what advantage there is in expropriating personal residences in use by their owners that would further the goal of American land reform.