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Tech millionaire builds 99-unit tiny house neighborhood for homeless Canadians - rent is kept at 30% of income, the large majority of residents pay a maximum of $200 — including all utilities (www.goodgoodgood.co)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (26 children)

As for the residents of the houses, rent is kept at 30% of income, which means the large majority of residents pay a maximum of $200 — including all utilities and internet — every month.

How are they planning to sustain this long-term?

Surely, someone is paying for the difference. Unless I totally missed it from the article 🫣

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (12 children)

It's why the tech millionaire financing this isn't a tech billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I get that he's financing it, but that's not sustainable if you want to implement something similar around the country.

I love the idea, and the tiny house village looks amazing! But if it relies on a millionaire to voluntarily subsidize the project, I can't see it lasting too long.

Now, that brings us to a wonderful new option: tax the rich more than we do.

The top 5 billionaires could fund 1000s of these tiny home villages with just a fraction of a percent increase on their hoarded wealth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sure it is. You have to have government fund it, like a normal social democracy would do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

like a normal social democracy would do.

Any examples?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Sweden had the Million Programme back in ~1960, which produced a significant amount of the housing people live in to this day. Just shitloads of commie blocks (and houses, actually) because they recognized that people needed a place to live.
You can find apartments in these buildings for $200 per month, they'll be tiny but they're fine. $600 is pretty standard and gets you something i'd almost consider luxurious for a single person.

And these days there's still a lot of subsidies going into housing, plus the fact that a lot of the apartment buildings are commissioned by municipal housing companies (i.e. owned by the municipality, and not operated for profit) or by what are effectively housing co-ops.

Look at riksbyggen for example, they're kind of the bread and butter housing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksbyggen

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