Episode Description
In this episode we outline:
How to build enough affordable housing for everyone using an existing housing model that’s proven to work.
How to pay for it.
How to convert existing market rate housing into affordable housing.
How we can accomplish all of this even within current neoliberal economic constraints.
THIS IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL EXERCISE, IT’S A REAL POLICY PLAN, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Art by Khosro Berahmandi
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ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE
Gary Stevenson – Why Is Housing So Expensive?
Gary Stevenson – Inequality is Driving Everything
Gary Stevenson – Why the Rich Get Richer
Gary Stevenson – The Covid Inflation Crisis Explained
Gary Stevenson – How Covid Makes the Rich Richer
0:00 Hello fellow kids / Introduction
2:32 Khosro Berahmandi’s $435, 2 bedroom apartment
4:08 The no-equity cooperative
8:12 Why aren’t there more cooperatives?
9:58 Financing cooptopia
10:41 Problems of taxation
13:04 Problems of borrowing
13:51 Problems of printing money
14:53 How to overcome these problems
18:00 The problem with public housing
19:15 How to deal with inflated land costs
20:19 Densification vs building new neighbourhoods
21:27 How to phase out rental housing
22:40 Gremlin children of landlords
24:25 A massive boon to the economy
25:33 Freeing landlords from rent dependency
25:54 Rent control
26:59 Try a test run in your city!
28:03 Do dis now!
28:30 In the meantime / gimme
https://archive.org/download/khosro-coops/16.1%20-%20KHOSRO%20COOPS.mp3