How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- American housing is in crisis. With more luxury housing being built every day while huge numbers of people are stuck with substandard homes or none at all, the U.S. model for housing has proven to be a catastrophe. Zohran Mamdani, New York State assemblyman, talks about how Austrian socialists in the 1920s and ‘30s pioneered an approach that offered better, cheaper, and safer homes for everyone.
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0:00 America's Housing Crisis
3:26 The Austrian Example
6:50 What America Can Do
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@@avocadocrumch even more
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We need social housing in America. Homlessness is not only a cruelty on the poor, it's costly to all of us.
Actually we do, there called “housing authorities”. Around 4 million people live in those in the US.
Exactly. Leaving a single human being to die on the streets is a stain on all of society, and it drains our resources.
Not to mention 100% preventable from a societal standpoint. We collectively watch our fellow humans die in the cold next to an empty, heated building.
The right for shelter was secured in the Soviet constitution. Not having permanent residency was legally considered a crime. There were also virtually no empty and unused apartments in the cities: any flat where nobody was registered was immediately lent by the state at a symbolic price to others who needed better living conditions. If a person who had permanent registration could not pay for shelter, nobody had right to evict them, only to demand money through a court.
Immediately after the October 1917 Revolution a special program of "compression" ("уплотнение") was enabled: people who had no shelter were settled in flats of those who had large (4, 5 or 6 room) flats with only one room left to previous owners. The flat was declared state property. This led to a large number of shared flats where several families lived simultaneously. Nevertheless, the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in the 1960s).
After the breakup of the USSR and adopting capitalism, the problem of homelessness sharpened dramatically, partially because of the legal vacuum of the early 1990s with some laws contradicting each other and partially because of a high rate of frauds in the realty market.
Nevertheless, the state is still obliged to give permanent shelter for free to anybody who needs better living conditions or has no permanent registration, because the right to shelter is still included in the constitution. This may take many years, though. Nobody still has the right to strip a person of permanent residency without their will, even the owner of the apartment. This creates problems for banks because mortgage loans became increasingly popular. Banks are obliged to provide a new, cheaper flat for a person instead of the old one if the person fails to repay the loan, or wait until all people who live in the flat are dead.
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@@AllMustJump they're usually shitty and there's 330+ million bruv
Damn these socialists seem pretty cool
u know it fam
haha
Yea, perhaps we should all be socialists.
Thank goodness the US government doesn't put socialists on a watch list so that they know how to best suppress the ideology without being caught.
Oh wait!
The right for shelter was secured in the Soviet constitution. Not having permanent residency was legally considered a crime. There were also virtually no empty and unused apartments in the cities: any flat where nobody was registered was immediately lent by the state at a symbolic price to others who needed better living conditions. If a person who had permanent registration could not pay for shelter, nobody had right to evict them, only to demand money through a court.
Immediately after the October 1917 Revolution a special program of "compression" ("уплотнение") was enabled: people who had no shelter were settled in flats of those who had large (4, 5 or 6 room) flats with only one room left to previous owners. The flat was declared state property. This led to a large number of shared flats where several families lived simultaneously. Nevertheless, the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in the 1960s).
After the breakup of the USSR and adopting capitalism, the problem of homelessness sharpened dramatically, partially because of the legal vacuum of the early 1990s with some laws contradicting each other and partially because of a high rate of frauds in the realty market.
Nevertheless, the state is still obliged to give permanent shelter for free to anybody who needs better living conditions or has no permanent registration, because the right to shelter is still included in the constitution. This may take many years, though. Nobody still has the right to strip a person of permanent residency without their will, even the owner of the apartment. This creates problems for banks because mortgage loans became increasingly popular. Banks are obliged to provide a new, cheaper flat for a person instead of the old one if the person fails to repay the loan, or wait until all people who live in the flat are dead.
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Ya we do
Because so many people overpaid for homes even while loan rates were low, I believe there will be a housing catastrophe because these people are in debt. If housing costs continue to drop and, for whatever reason, they can no longer afford the property and it goes into foreclosure, they have no equity since, even if they try to sell, they will not make any money. I believe that many individuals will experience this, especially given the impending mass layoffs and rapidly rising living expenses.
I advise you to invest in stocks to balance out your real estate, Even the worst recessions offer wonderful buying opportunities in the markets if you're cautious. Volatility can also result in excellent short-term buy and sell opportunities. This is not financial advice, but buy now because cash is definitely not king right now!
Soon, cheap homes won't be cheap anymore because prices today will look like dips tomorrow. I think inflation will cause panic until the Fed tightens its grip even more. You can't just pull the band-aid off half way. Booms and busts are the ups and downs of the economy, and they will affect any investments. If you are at a crossroads or need honest advice on the best steps to take right now, it is best to get counsel from a financial expert.
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I was born and have lived in Vienna for 60 years. I live in one of the social housing. The house was built in 1930 and I pay € 230 rent a month plus € 25 for energy. The energy company also belongs to the city. The apartment has about 60 m². My monthly pre-tax income is around € 3,300. I am happy! FRIENDSHIP (Greetings from the Socialists)
I don't understand why Americans are so against giving everyone a home. If your community is stronger and healthier, so is your country.
A kapo or prisoner functionary (German: Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
Also called "prisoner self-administration" (German: Häftlingsselbstverwaltung), the prisoner functionary system minimized costs by allowing camps to function with fewer SS personnel. The system was designed to turn victim against victim, as the prisoner functionaries were pitted against their fellow prisoners in order to maintain the favor of their SS overseers. If they were derelict, they would be returned to the status of ordinary prisoners and be subject to other kapos. Many prisoner functionaries were recruited from the ranks of violent criminal gangs rather than from the more numerous political, religious, and racial prisoners; such criminal convicts were known for their brutality toward other prisoners. This brutality was tolerated by the SS and was an integral part of the camp system.
Prisoner functionaries were spared physical abuse and hard labor, provided they performed their duties to the satisfaction of the SS functionaries. They also had access to certain privileges, such as civilian clothes and a private room.
The SS used domination and terror to control the camps' large populations with just a few SS functionaries. The system of prisoner guards was a key instrument of domination, and was commonly called "prisoner self-government" in SS parlance.
The camp draconian rules, constant threat of beatings, humiliation, punishment, and the practice of punishing whole groups for the actions of one prisoner were psychological and physical torments on top of the starvation, and physical exhaustion from back-breaking labor. Prisoner guards were used to push other inmates to work harder, saving the need for paid SS supervision. Many kapos felt caught in the middle, being both victims and perpetrators. Though kapos generally had a bad reputation, many suffered guilt about their actions, both at the time and after the war, as revealed in a book about Jewish kapos.
Many prisoner functionaries, primarily from the ranks of the "greens" or criminal prisoners, could be quite ruthless in order to justify their privileges, especially when an SS man was around. They also played an active role in the beatings, even killing fellow prisoners. Some guards were personally involved in the mass murder of other prisoners.
An eager prisoner functionary could have a camp "career" as an SS favorite and be promoted from Kapo to Oberkapo and eventually to Lagerältester, but he could also just as easily run foul of the SS and be sent to the gas chambers.
"The moment he becomes a Kapo, he no longer sleeps with them. He is held accountable for the performance of the work, that they are clean, that the beds are well-built. [...] So, he must drive his men. The moment we become dissatisfied with him, he is no longer Kapo, he's back to sleeping with his men. And he knows that he will be beaten to death by them the first night." - Heinrich Himmler, June 1944
@@notabene7381 How is this related?
Answer: capitalist propaganda
Because a lot of us had been brainwashed to be hyper individualistic and competitive by capitalist propaganda. That it’s immoral for you to have any help at all. A lot of us don’t view us a community but other competitors. That if we work hard enough, we’ll be millionaires too.
But I think it’s also because a lot of Americans don’t want to acknowledge that we all been essentially conned and instead they double down on it.
It's tremendously profitable to kick people out and gouge newcomers when it comes to any asset pool. Homeowners, landlords, developers, finance make a humungous killing leveraging your need to live near your job so you're willing pay to 30-50% of your income for it. It practically prints money. And then naturally people develop negative feelings toward any people who don't represent that dream.
Imagine actually believing that evictions are ethical, or believing that homelessness is a choice - or even worse, something that people deserve. The housing crisis on its own is enough to utterly condemn capitalism.
100%. I feel some capitalism in certain sectors is fine and even a little necessary but when it gets in the way of people's survival then its horrible
The belief that people are in their poor state by choice absolves those believers of responsibility or guilt, while also bolstering their own ego by making them believe they are responsible for their own fortunate position in life.
o7
my parents sometimes say that homelessness is a choice for some people. How do you counter this point?
"But some people LIKE being homeless!" is the most annoying line of thought ever. Even if some do, what about the other 99%?!
I have a rental apartment in social housing complex: 110 square meter, cost 1000 dollar a month, and now when I retire from work, the state pay half of the cost.
I'm so content that I live in Denmark.
Glad you're content, wish I was a Danish citizen. I hope to visit soon.
Where does the state get their money to pay for half?
@@bartdoo5757 Taxes, and Denmark is not so corrupt as your country!
@@shs6849 Are you saying other citizens pay for your apartment rent?
@@bartdoo5757 Just as I had paid taxes for 50 years, that paid for others to have a good life! You know, that's social democracy.
As an American homeless person (one of MANY), I thank you for making content like this. PLEASE continue educating and maybe one day we can eradicate the disease that plagues the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, POWER TO THE WORKING CLASS
Gravel should do a video on the public housing in America if the government does it so well.
America is so rich that the federal government could implement these solutions by changing the way they already spend money, Bart. Our government simply will not :/
Didn't ask
Have you gotten a job yet, hobo?
when you realise there are more empty homes than homeless people, you know something in our society has gone seriously wrong
“Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed. Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves.”
― Zeitgeist: Addendum
It’s even hurting capitalism, as a good chunk of the population can’t work or live/consume or generate productivity nor can’t increase Labour cost (wich is good for capitalism, wich forces companies finally to invest in productivity).
@@sharann3482
Gee, almost like happier people are better at their job.
Rocco Anders and more efficient that is
@@sharann3482
Nah, it’s the reserve army of labor. Keep people on the brink of desperation and they’ll accept whatever slave wages you give them.
I guess you could say capitalism is *housing* the the problem...
The the pogu
Without the appalling fate of the poor and homeless, you cannot push people to accept working for less than 100% of their productivity, which is the foundation of capitalism. That is, capitalism must perpetuate chronic poverty in order to survive.
In the words of the great George Carlin: "The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class."
Nota Bene Wrong you are Describing the neoclassical/Neoliberal Economy not Capitalism itself (but i used to think like you as well).
Infact Capitalism will die, if you don’t increase wages in line with productivity growth, this not even theory this is basic accounting.
You produce more products, you have to increase wages in line with productivity growth. This is what Capitalism drives and started 250 years ago, wich doesn’t mean we had constantly Capitalism (it stopped everytime when wages were payed too low or too high).
hahahaha Kill me.
@@sharann3482 neo liberalism is capitalism in a more pure form without any of safety guard to stop the worst actors. Whatever way you think you can make capitalism more ethical it won't work, workers are always being exploited and whatever social gains you think you've made can be rolled back when the capital owning gods or masters want.
In the 1950s, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had a budget larger than the Department of Defense. That's because after WW2, the US government understood that it needed affordable housing for this new booming population growth and worked to construct it. In the 50s and 60s homelessness was shrinking so dramatically that there were predictions that there would be none by the 1970s.Then in the 1980s, Reagan came along and gutted HUD and let the "market" handle it. Look what 40 years of that has done. Essentially an entire generation that can't afford a home, rampant and growing homelessness in every state, and more empty homes than homeless people. The economic model of supply and demand is broken in this late stage capitalist system. It's time to return to our 1950's socialist housing policies, except this time let's not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. The estimates are that a budget of $20 billion/year could end homelessness. The pentagon loses that much in the couch cushions every year. Homelessness is a policy choice.
This! Too many don't know American government or history. The school system is designed to keep the populace ignorant. An ignorant populace is easily controlled.
Hello from Germany. We had millions of housing in communal ownership (i.e. owned by the cities) when FRG annected Eastern Germany. Now the number is 80% less, they in main were sold out to companies. Often they were upscaled to luxury housing and therefore became unaffordable for poor people. The average german now pays 30-50% of his wages for rent, depending from the area he lives. And it is still becoming worse.
And don't forget: Vienna wins “City with the best quality of living *in the world*“ like every year!
Proud Vienna resident here : )
Man I've been to Vienna and it was amazing. It felt so welcoming! Even more than where I live (Canada)
Why not move there?
@@cwindigo6919 I wish I could move there. I'm happy where I am in Canada but I also love Vienna. It's just hard to up and move, especially to another country.
@@cwindigo6919
"Hehe, just move there 4head" - A random pepega
Housing is a human right.
based
based and housingpilled
Health care is a human right, too! :)
Education is a human right.
No. It isn't. To say such a thing is an outright admission of a misunderstanding of not only rights, but of reality.
The reason rent prices is high in New York is because it's the only walkable city in USA. Other cities banned building anything other than single family houses. And those can never be affordable
That’s why I love New York City , every major cities in America should use it as an examples but the average person are idiots who are not deep thinkers or greedy selfish people .
It is conveniently left out that Soviet Union solved the housing issue by restricting where people could move to. You could only live and work in the district where the government assigned you to, and that is how their government could then predict where housing is needed to build mass housing in those areas. This is nearly impossible if people can move anywhere they want. In the USA, a part of the problem is government regulations in the form of NIMBY laws that prevent construction of mass housing. States like New York, California, Texas, etc have counties that pass laws preventing the construction of duplex, triplex, townhouses, etc and higher density housing.
Not quite like that. On the contrary, people could move to another city if they found a job there (the employer provided documents for registration in the city and the simplest social housing for the common residence of men, women or families separately).
Isn't that logical? Why would you settle in the city and be homeless and unemployed?
No one was forbidden to visit other cities for entertainment or business. But in order to stay for a long time, it was necessary to find a job.
Never let the establishment gaslight you into thinking that hellworld is inescapable.
Or that it is the best possible world
*ruling class*
A better world is possible. It’s so simple, but we have to keep reminding each other of that possibility.
YES!
We can't ever stop fighting.
As a person living in Vienna I love seeing such presentations of my city.
It hurts to see tourists strolling the inner city (palaces, churches, horse carriages, blingbling, etc) and they think: this is what makes Vienna the most liveable city?
No! It's affordable living for everyone; social housing in every district and area (therefore no "ghettos"); affordable and smoothly functioning public transport; beautiful parks in every area... to just name a few.
Allthough Social Democrates aren't perfect either, they governed this city since after WWII and genuinly seem to care about peoples quality of living.
What is the native mortality vs birthing rates? Yup vienna's people are dieing faster than replacement....socialism is just killing u slowly with his song 👍
@@solotechoregon If the quality of living in Vienna won't convince you that those policies are good for people, than nothing ever will. In the end we all gonna die - better live a healthy, happy and peaceful life along the way.
@@solotechoregon There’s been a global decline in birth rates so isolating to just Vienna is dishonest, FYI
How many immigrants does your country accept each year? Is it easy for a foreigner to live in the city for free too?
@@CarloLlacar world wide population...still on the increase.
This video is absolutely crushing. Not because I don’t think it’s a good idea (I think it’s an amazing idea actually), but because I know this won’t happen across the US in my lifetime, or ever. Whenever the word “social” is involved anywhere in a program, alarm bells go off in the minds of millions of Americans. They simply can’t fathom the fact that publicly owned operations can be better and cheaper than rampant capitalism. It’s depressing to know what is possible but will never happen because of ignorant citizens and decades of anti-socialist propaganda.
This BS hs never worked and never will.
Sorry that you are too lazy to work.
Yea as an american gen z socialist it's possible it could happen in my time but I don't think so unless I try to start becoming more on seeing if anti aging and age reversing becomes big because the funding it's gonna keep getting bigger and more are gonna need it
It's definitely a crises. After my wife left me, I found myself homeless. It took nearly two years of eating every third day to save up enough for this dilapidated apartment I'm in, which takes 3/4 of my income to stay. I'm about to quit my job with the sentence "I can easily be hungry & homeless without this job." because, quite frankly, it's true.
I'm a Union Pipefitter, and I want to help build affordable housing for everyone.
Maybe some day you'll be able to
It's not even about the lack of housing. There's plenty of empty housing that are used purely to speculate on property prices by Singaporean trust fund babies who probably will never even set eyes on them. It's when they become speculative property and assets to extract rent with, and are combined with cheap credit to substitute for shoestring wages, that even modest properties can become ridiculously expensive.
@@jackvac1918 We must destroy the practice of landlording! It would certainly help :)
Your work is appreciated!
To a better society!
This guy is a great presenter. You should bring him back.
That smile, man.
Glad to have him and AOC represent my neighborhood too.
@@ToaNyroc yeah it's kind of inspiring in a way
He is very charming!
@@parispc lucky
the problem with that is MINDSET of Americans. They look down on these public housings, just as they look down on public transportations. they don't want to be transformed into "socialist" America, nor social-democratic America. Plus other homeless would rather exercise their freedom to live in the streets than pay high for a house.
This guys smile is just so damn infectious.
I like how Gravel Institute engages with their audience instead of preaching from their podium then hiding behind their stardom like every conservative demigogue
Thank you for watching! We love everyone who supports our mission. :)
But what happens if Ben Shapiro comes out of his hole and sees his shadow?
I might not agree with your ideology, but I respect you more than PragerU.
@@gxtmfa :) You're a cool person.
@@Demon9ne He'll just run, because he can't win a debate against anyone but college students who haven't done their research
It's amazing what can be accomplished in a society that doesn't divert obscene amounts of its wealth to the already-super-rich.
Exactly. It's a shame that America is so brainwashed into thinking it's good for those people to have so much wealth.
@@comradefreedom8275 I think the red scare is the leading cause of that
@@grifm.5224 Which is truly sad.
not to mention most of the taxes going to a hyper inflated money pit called the us military
@@Max-lz8ho True. Very true.
I visited Vienna a few years ago. There was A LOT of young people in their 20's walking around... a lot. Young people really can't afford to live in the big cities of America.
Your district is Astoria, Queens where I grew up and currently live. My family is third generation. The vast majority of my friends moved away after college because they found the area either too expensive or not meeting their housing needs. It wasn’t the end of the world. Many moved back to the area after their kids finished school or reached retirement. The “issue” of homelessness didn’t start to appear until late 70’s Carey Vs. Callahan or vise versa. I would love to live on Central Park West but I would never look to somebody else to flip the bill. If you can’t afford an area or even a city than you should move to a place you can afford, as people did in the past. I enjoy your videos and agree with much of what The Gravel Institute stands for and is doing except with this housing video. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Imagine having a country so far right social democrats are called "socialists"
We're far further right than that, Mitt Frickin Romney (one of the few almost sane republicans) has been called a socialist lol... :X
Right? Especially since I expected the Gravel Institute to know the difference. Maybe that was on purpose to not confuse less informed people too much?
i thought the right calls liberals "communists" lol
@@arc3028 this is a case where they're not wrong. In that era the term social democrat was what communists used to describe themselves. Lenin self described as a social democrat (despite writing in State & Revolution how the name is a bit confusing since communists aim to set up the dissolution of state power, and democracy is state power enforcing popular will.)
So in this case. yes the social democrats were socialists. However fast forward not too much into the future and social democracy is coopted as a term to refer to a reformist ideology the likes of the SPD believed in. Real socialists then abandoned the word and start identifying more overtly with the term communist.
@@sparkiispark7237 Ohhh, thanks a lot for that info. I didnt know that my ancestors were *that* based lol
Jobs programs that aren't the military, desirable public housing, Medicare for all
Trade schools for everyone who wants it
@@SCHRODINGERS_WHORE education in general for those who want it.
Public housing is not very good. Better to turn existing Section 8 housing vouchers into entitlements for everyone who qualifies, instead of the way we do it now, where access to the program is constrained by the program's budget. You'd also have to make it so that every landlord has to accept the vouchers. That or you could give people a check so it wouldn't be an issue.
@@xxcrysad3000xx vouchers don't work for schools they won't work for housing. Artificially adding people to a profit driven market only inflates the exploitation that happens and causes resentment among neighbors who "earned it". De-stigmatizing housing is a large part of the equation that vouchers don't address. Housing needs to be a human right in America and you need to remove the profit motive for that to happen.
Maybe in a more democratically socialist country public housing might actually work as it's proponents say it would, but we don't live in such a society. Vouchers have a pretty good track record getting families into housing within their means. We could give all low income families who qualify Section 8 vouchers that can be used anywhere in a city, state, or the country, and it would be a lot cheaper than building a lot of new public housing units that have to be managed, maintained, ect.
Public housing doesn't have a great track record either. Concentrating all low-income, poor, and homeless people in need of affordable housing into public housing projects does not work to their benefit. Better to give people cash, and let those people move wherever they want with it. I agree that vouchers for schools don't work, but vouchers for housing works really well.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Thank you Gravel Institute, these are all great!
It is insane that the United States has the ability to provide shelter, food, fresh water, and healthcare to its citizens, but It chooses not to.
I agree completely.
Housing is a human right. We have enough homes for everyone.
The right for shelter was secured in the Soviet constitution. Not having permanent residency was legally considered a crime. There were also virtually no empty and unused apartments in the cities: any flat where nobody was registered was immediately lent by the state at a symbolic price to others who needed better living conditions. If a person who had permanent registration could not pay for shelter, nobody had right to evict them, only to demand money through a court.
Immediately after the October 1917 Revolution a special program of "compression" ("уплотнение") was enabled: people who had no shelter were settled in flats of those who had large (4, 5 or 6 room) flats with only one room left to previous owners. The flat was declared state property. This led to a large number of shared flats where several families lived simultaneously. Nevertheless, the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in the 1960s).
After the breakup of the USSR and adopting capitalism, the problem of homelessness sharpened dramatically, partially because of the legal vacuum of the early 1990s with some laws contradicting each other and partially because of a high rate of frauds in the realty market.
Nevertheless, the state is still obliged to give permanent shelter for free to anybody who needs better living conditions or has no permanent registration, because the right to shelter is still included in the constitution. This may take many years, though. Nobody still has the right to strip a person of permanent residency without their will, even the owner of the apartment. This creates problems for banks because mortgage loans became increasingly popular. Banks are obliged to provide a new, cheaper flat for a person instead of the old one if the person fails to repay the loan, or wait until all people who live in the flat are dead.
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In America, housing is not a human right.
...that's the problem.
You know nothing about economics...
@@epix4300 You probably think that "economy" means "line that says the poor should starve/freeze to death". Go retake econ 101 in some dumb liberal college
Amen! Empty housing outnumbers the homeless nearly 6 to 1
Great piece! I agree that social housing similar to a European model would be ideal. In my opinion, America has two parties. One is right wing and the other is extreme right wing, both beholding to their corporate sponsors. Until a third, socialist party emerges, the existing parties are unwilling to put people before profits.
It's called the Green Party, but the mainstream media pretends that you're supporting the right if you vote for it.
It would be better to just move to Vienna and pay taxes there then to work for the US that supports what you don't believe in. Book a flight now!?
@@jakeshota4050now that’s just cowardly while reform is this possible
@@lmvr127 If you think reform is more effective, you are right where they want you to be. You can spend your whole life in a country protesting or chatting with like minded people on UA-cam all the while paying taxes to a system you don't agree with. The door is wide open and you can leave and live and work in a country that you agree with. To do so based on your emotions that you think it would be cowardly to do so, would be stupid. Or maybe you are just too much of a coward to seek change by moving to a new place? Keep paying taxes to a country you disagree with or quit your employment with the country you disagree with and work in a country you would rather pay your taxes to. You have that choice. A country without working people will fail. Similarly, this is why politicians are so concerned with declining birthrate, a country needs tax paying workers to survive.
Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Miami in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.
If anything, it'll get worse. Very soon, affordable housing will no longer be affordable. So anything anyone want to do, I will advise they do it now because the prices today will look like dips tomorrow. Until the Fed clamps down even further, I think we're going to see hysteria due to rampant inflation. You can't halfway rip the band-aid off.
Home prices will come down eventually, but for now; get your money (as much as you can) out of the housing market and get into the financial markets or gold. The new mortgage rates are crazy, add to that the recession and the fact that mortgage guidelines are getting more difficult. Home prices will need to fall by a minimum of 40% (more like 50%) before the market normalizes.If you are in cross roads or need sincere advise on the best moves to take now its best you seek an independent advisor who knows about the financial markets.
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Prager U: we need statues of gen Lee because he crushed a slave revolt
Gravel Institute: let's make sure everyone has a home
anarchy deluxe clearly Gravel Institute is the evil one in this situation. Imagine wanting people to live decent lives where they don’t die on the streets homeless
They should make a video celebrating John brown
That sounds so disingenuous, I'm sure they never insinuated what you wrote
@@williamgarcia1417 oh my sweet summer child, watch Prager's video on why Robert E Lee's statue should stay up. It will truly blow your mind
@@williamgarcia1417 This isn't even close to the worst thing PragerU has done, one of their presenters is literally a Neo-Nazi, as in he literally said that he thinks Hitler was right. It wasn't a joke, he didn't claim it was a joke he literally just said that Hitler was right.
As someone from vienna: Thank you for sharing this.
When our country makes it into the news / is mentioned in over-sees media, it's usually for our backwards conservative party, their corruption and their drunktard incompetence.
Being a positive example is refreshing.
Becaause our little red Vienna is different from the rest of the country. And I am pround to be part of that humane and "put the people over profits" side
The few time I traveled to Austria (I spent three holiday periods in Innsbruck) I always found it a beautiful country but I always believed that it’s an extremely Conservative place with a libertarian/conservative government (maybe I was influenced by high school philosophy lesson about Hayek and the Austrian School of Economics) so this video is really refreshing for me. Anyway if it can console you even when my country (Italy) is on the spotlight usually is for negative reasons, we are known for mafia, disorganized or corrupted governments and incompetent politicians.
To bad he didn’t mention why the fascist party felt it necessary to take over, why the people allowed such obvious hate to consume their government. Maybe the crippling national debt and in sustainability had something to do with it...
@@Billsbob in-sustainability and debt? I think you're talking about the American Wall Street system there my friend
@@Billsbob hey just want to clarify, is a fascist takeover preferable? I kinda want a straight answer.
@@Billsbob "They felt it necessary to take over." Nice description for "they wanted power". "No no, they didn't want to install a fascist dictatorship, they just felt it necessary to take over. Basically a selfless service to the people."
Anyway, Austria didn't only consist of Vienna (which was ruled by the Social Democrats), but also of a large rural and very conservative countryside, which was much more in favor of the conservative Christian Social Party (which eventually evolved into the fascist Patriotic Front). Especially as they were fed massive amounts of propaganda about all the abhorrent things the Social Democrats would do if they came into power in Austria.
Does that ring any bells?
Superb presentation, well-written script. Great!
Very inspiring to see a politician who actually cares about people's needs.
Before you say, "Yeah, but he's only talking about big cities," take a look at RV parks in metro and rural areas. They're overflowing with long-term residents, and the rates have steadily gone up and up over the past year especially. That's a damn clear indication that there's a massive problem.
Yep I'm one of those. The RV park we are in is full 100% all the time since the pandemic. I don't want to live here but there is literally no other choice.
@@RayrayGumiChan Yes, same here. What state are you in? I'm in Oklahoma. During the shutdown they immediately began cramming in more sites, and as if it wasn't enough to more than double the number of rent checks they receive every month, they hiked up rent amount, too. They haven't stopped expanding, either. There's at least 5x more sites now, and as soon as the concrete is dry, they've already got someone ready to pull in.
I don't want to be here, either. Who wants to live in a parking lot?? I'd give anything to have my own little spot where I could have a garden and finally know what security and stability feel like. I'm even considering making an offer on a burned down place, because I'm priced out of everything else. How can you save when more than half your income goes to rent??
@@lisakukla459 Whoa exactly how Im feeling. I'm from florida and I hope you can fix up the place if you do get it!
@@RayrayGumiChan Thanks. I hope you find a way into something better, too. I figure, I'm already used to living in
Yep, I can't wait to live in a communal apartment
B-but... Socialism is when no iPhone...
/s if you couldn't tell lol
socialism is when little iphone, the less iphone the more socialist it is, and when no iphone at all its communism
Hit em with the "every technology in your iPhone was initially developed with tax dollars"
Socialism is when Venezuela
Big government Venezuela iPhone 100 gigatrillion dead
haha lmao
Letting almost everyone have access (70-90%) and running it to where the tent covers operational cost is what the US needs.
It would be better to just move to Vienna and pay taxes to support housing as a human right. If you stay and work in the US. You support capitalism. Book a flight now!?
One of the major setbacks to affordable housing in the US today is the hyperinflated land prices that the government, or the land trusts, or co-ops, or even well-intentioned affordable housing builders must pay private landowners in order to buy the land "affordable" housing will be built on. This burden was nowhere as big a barrier when Austria conceptualized and manifest their public housing system.
Until we reform the unlimited, feudalistic property laws at the foundation of our land & housing system, manifesting affordable housing projects here in the US, whether via the government, land trusts, co-ops, non-profits, or private developers, will continue to be the extremely slow going, minimally effective strategy it has been for decades and decades.
Yet if we deal with the deeper roots of the problem, not only would affordable housing projects flourish, the rest of our housing system would be functional, equitable, and affordable too.
That in turn would solve so many other problems...for instance, costs of living would stabilize. As employers would no longer be forced to fund the transfer of wealth from workers in the real economy to the pockets of those building wealth via non-productive real estate investments, labor costs would stabilize, domestic manufacturers could once again compete with foreign manufacturers, and we could escape the dependency on foreign manufacturers that has rendered our "great" country so vulnerable as of late.
When you look at the system holistically, it's not just the homeless and the housing burdened that need a new system...it's also employers, manufacturers, and consumers as a whole. When a critical mass of citizens understand how our feudalistic, hyperinflated land & housing systems is bringing all of us down, the changes we need to make will happen.
Gravel should do a video on the public housing in America if the government does it so well.
I actually can't imagine a world where rent is only 4% of my income... everyone I know struggles to afford housing
Join The Rent Is Too Damn High Party today.
If rent was 4% people would be able to care for their love ones . Let’s do this.
I'm so confused, what do they even spend the other 96% on? It really woke me up with how much give away to housing.
@@raziphaz2219 traveling as a family,retirement,college , food and daily necessities
If they pay taxes, then they are paying for their rent in part through taxes, so 4% is going to be an underestimate.
There's seems to be a general perception that social housing is only fiscally possible in less desirable areas, bit Vienna is one of the most beautiful vibrant cities in Europe. Amazing to see what's possible when we don't let the very visible manipulation behind the "invisible hand" of the market dictate how we treat our fellow man.
My man, you and everyone is part of the invisible hand, if it is easier to fins housing in less desireble areas, is because everyone thinks so, democracy on its greatest exponent
This video doesn't get into what is causing low housing supply in the US. It just says but Capitalism isn't fair. We don't even let Capitalism work in the housing market due to exorbitant fees and regulations to build new housing.
The solution is actually very simple and doesn't require more than half of the people to rent Government apartments. I don't want to rent. I want to BUY.
I would fully support Federal legislation to allow for much lower fees and regulations to build housing IF that housing is within 800-1500 sq feet. Local Governments want high fees to pay for new schools and new roads. So have the Federal Government pay for the new schools and roads, IF new units are built to fill the demands of the lower end of the market, which is in the greatest need. And I will buy one of these privately built units, that developers can then afford to build.
Again, I don't want to rent a cheap (but nicer) Government apartment. I want to buy a more affordable privately built smaller home, that became available because private developers don't have to pay a large percent of the homes value in fees in order to build that home.
@@do-hz4qb Renting social housing in Vienna is essentially owning that unit. You're there for life, as long as you want to live in it, and it's considered so nice that when people do climb out of lower economic status they stay in the unit.
Your private home in the suburbs will open up when people are capable of living in the city affordably.
I am so glad to have found your channel!
Prager U tends to talk down to their audience like they're children who need to be taught to stay in line, while The Gravel Institute tends to talk to us like we're, y'know, actual adults seeking education on these topics because we're disenfranchised with a society that doesn't meet its peoples' needs.
Meanwhile Socialists are children who deny basic biology and economics.
@@R3tr0v1ru5 Why do you hate so much
here in east germany we still have a lot of housing cooperatives, the people who live in such an apartment get a stake in the cooperative and help with cleaning and decide on what the paid rent is spent (usually only upkeep, thats why is so cheap). and you can ask everyone who ever lived in such cooperative houses - they are good in quality and way better than if you were to rent from a private landlord
Upvoting and boosting so this gets seen - great idea
Housing cooperatives are also pretty widespread in Denmark but they've been under pressure by the Neoliberal government for most of the 21st century. I'd hope that things will change now that we finally have a left wing government again but I don't trust the Social Democrats.
Yes, as hedgehog says it's the same in Denmark. These places (in Copenhagen for instance) have retained much lower rent while the rent is skyrocketing on the private housing market.
That's called company store here.
American housing co-op fam checking in 💯
"If people can have houses for free and aren't fearing for their lives, then no ones gonna want to work. I'm a very good person."
- Some chud
I just say “just because you’re an arsehole, that doesn’t mean everyone else is”
What I point out usually is that if you as an employer are unable to keep employees without the threat of death and homelessness driving them, then perhaps it's time to change the conditions in your workplace.
For free... that's not how taxes or labor works. That's how slave labor works. But put your money where your mouth is and build me a house, no charge. If you refuse, you're inhumane and greedy.
@@jaduyare Lmao you actually thought you knew what you were talking about
@@evergreen6638 Sure, financed via taxation =/= free and consensual.
Vienna is famous for their affordable apartments owned by the city. From money they collect from rent - they invest back in buying or building new apartments and they take care of maintenance. First function of construction sector is to secure affordable apartments for citizens and profit of private investors is so much less important that there are strict rules for them. Austrians are strict, obedient, easy to follow the rules and care about common good. It would be very hard to implement social housing without investing in communities, without investing in schools and infrastructure, without securing social safety nets. Beside housing, people need good education, good paying jobs, public transport, healthcare and public infrastructure to spend quality free time.
Kudos, Bravo, more Power to you...GO !
More & more people will get behind U and support. 😎
I'm lucky enough to be able to live with my parents for the foreseeable future, but the idea of decent affordable housing actually brought me to tears.
My 60-year-old father is living with his parents right now. Times are tough.
I'm living with my parents at 21 and paying off the mortgage.
They want you scared so you'll become a worker bee
@@galerus3776 You are young many Americans are living with parents due to extremely unaforrdable housing. Government is just poring more water on the fire and its causig more homelessness.s
I feel this in a big way. I lived with my parents for a couple years after college. I was very lucky and got a well paying job that allowed me to move out despite high rent near my job (i am an engineer for a large company) but being able to pay a third or less what I do in rent, as described in the video, would be huge even for me, and I am well aware how so many, especially in my age group, are less fortunate than I and could not afford a fancy apartment like mine.
"a society that allows someone to starve when there is food has failed"
tru
Why? That person needs to work harder and smarter.
@@ProbotX-eo5ln What is wrong with you?
Edit: ok you must be sarcastic lol, but this is the internet so you never know
It's nothing short of terrifying that there are people who would refute this.
@@ProbotX-eo5ln
Individual improovements only solve individual issues. They do not solve societal issues.
The easier and more effective long-term solution would be to actually improove the government and institutions of our society to better provide for the needs of him and all other souls.
Great video. Informative but so easy to watch.
There was a similar movement to guarantee housing as a human right in the U.S. in the 1930s which resulted in the creation of public housing. But the real estate industry, fearful of competition from the government, sabotaged the program restricting eligibility to the poorest households and locating projects in impoverished neighborhoods, making it unsustainable in the long run. In Vienna, social housing is mixed-income and it's designed to be an appealing alternative to private sector housing for the middle class as well.
Another world where everyone's needs are met is possible. Also, Zohran did an amazing job presenting.
UBI,M4A,and the future is open to solutions
The right for shelter was secured in the Soviet constitution. Not having permanent residency was legally considered a crime. There were also virtually no empty and unused apartments in the cities: any flat where nobody was registered was immediately lent by the state at a symbolic price to others who needed better living conditions. If a person who had permanent registration could not pay for shelter, nobody had right to evict them, only to demand money through a court.
Immediately after the October 1917 Revolution a special program of "compression" ("уплотнение") was enabled: people who had no shelter were settled in flats of those who had large (4, 5 or 6 room) flats with only one room left to previous owners. The flat was declared state property. This led to a large number of shared flats where several families lived simultaneously. Nevertheless, the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in the 1960s).
After the breakup of the USSR and adopting capitalism, the problem of homelessness sharpened dramatically, partially because of the legal vacuum of the early 1990s with some laws contradicting each other and partially because of a high rate of frauds in the realty market.
Nevertheless, the state is still obliged to give permanent shelter for free to anybody who needs better living conditions or has no permanent registration, because the right to shelter is still included in the constitution. This may take many years, though. Nobody still has the right to strip a person of permanent residency without their will, even the owner of the apartment. This creates problems for banks because mortgage loans became increasingly popular. Banks are obliged to provide a new, cheaper flat for a person instead of the old one if the person fails to repay the loan, or wait until all people who live in the flat are dead.
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@@notabene7381
great point
What qualifies him to present exactly? If a Prager U criticism is they don't have "experts" on (they do) then how is Gravelle any better?
Agreed. Best video yet imo
As a former citizen of Red Vienna, I'm still happy with the state of our current social housing, but would love to see ourselves set these quasi-utopian standards to meet again, so that housing for the common good continues to be the high-quality architecture of the future. That being said, I wish you, my dear comrades across the pond, the best of luck to achieve what we have and more in the centre of capital in the 21st century! Check out the anthem of Red Vienna, "Arbeiter von Wien" (Workers of Vienna) on UA-cam for inspiration. Solidarity
I love that anthem, with the "Red Army is the Strongest" tune it's a joy to my ears
Es ist einfach verrückt, das eine der Weltgrössten Wirtschaftsmächte wie die USA nicht in der Lag ist, ein Problem zu lösen, das andere Länder davor schon längst gelöst haben.
It is just strange that one of the biggest economical powers in the world like the USA is not able to solve a problem which was solved by other countries a long time ago.
Solidarity forever, I couldn’t agree more comrade
We also have tons of suicides too. Americans are proud of this, for some reason. We are a third world country.
"Housing doesn't have to be seen as a market at all". Fuck yeah!
Why can't there be a market for housing? Everyone can guaranteed a home, sure, but what if I want a home in a more rural part of the country? You take the market out of it, and you remove a lot of choice.
Hey, that's not how you capitalism around here
For rural people, your current choice is a house that you can’t afford, and the street. I’d take social housing any day of the week.
@@theoceansandbox2712 Then you can live in your social housing, that's fine. I'm not necessarily opposed to it. What I am opposed to is it being the ONLY option. I don't want to be stacked on top of a bunch of different people if I can afford a a real house and some land. If that's so wrong, then so be it.
That I will agree with.
Necessities for survival being locked behind a paywall is some EA-type shit
Ea is the most capitalists company in the world (change my mind)
@@donxx1206 Try Nestle, who thinks water deserves to be commodified
The right for shelter was secured in the Soviet constitution. Not having permanent residency was legally considered a crime. There were also virtually no empty and unused apartments in the cities: any flat where nobody was registered was immediately lent by the state at a symbolic price to others who needed better living conditions. If a person who had permanent registration could not pay for shelter, nobody had right to evict them, only to demand money through a court.
Immediately after the October 1917 Revolution a special program of "compression" ("уплотнение") was enabled: people who had no shelter were settled in flats of those who had large (4, 5 or 6 room) flats with only one room left to previous owners. The flat was declared state property. This led to a large number of shared flats where several families lived simultaneously. Nevertheless, the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in the 1960s).
After the breakup of the USSR and adopting capitalism, the problem of homelessness sharpened dramatically, partially because of the legal vacuum of the early 1990s with some laws contradicting each other and partially because of a high rate of frauds in the realty market.
Nevertheless, the state is still obliged to give permanent shelter for free to anybody who needs better living conditions or has no permanent registration, because the right to shelter is still included in the constitution. This may take many years, though. Nobody still has the right to strip a person of permanent residency without their will, even the owner of the apartment. This creates problems for banks because mortgage loans became increasingly popular. Banks are obliged to provide a new, cheaper flat for a person instead of the old one if the person fails to repay the loan, or wait until all people who live in the flat are dead.
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A lot of shit in the videogame industry is caused by capitalism. Terrible monetization practices that take a leaf out of real-life gambling, absurd gameplay loops that feel like jobs, AAA companies playing it safe at the cost of product quality without losing that much profit, etc...
EA is a saint compared to what other companies pull off
@@IdiotOfTheFVariety I was just about to say Nestle and their slave labor.
Looks like I'm moving to Vienna once the pandemic finally clears
Living in Orange Country California, this is like a dream! You can't get a studio for less that $1600. And wages aren't keeping up.
Not to mention that the estimated cost to end homelessness was estimated to be like $20 billion in 2013 by HUD, and since then our U.S. imperialism budget has increased by over $100 billion annually.
“U.S imperialism budget”
I’m gonna use that more
You know that’s a low ball estimate. This video refuses to acknowledge the reasons why many people are actually homeless. It’s not just that they can’t pay their rent. It’s more often times the result of drug abuse, prior convictions or mental health issues.
This is pretending to be some sort of messiah solution but it’s the same deaf tone noise as PragerU BS.
@@calmexit6483 Why should prior convictions mean you shouldn't get housing? Why should mental illness mean you shouldn't get housing? Why should drug abuse mean you shouldn't get housing?
@@xXxXboxROXxX prior convictions shouldn’t be a massive factor if the person is rehabilitated and is a functional member of society, I’ll agree.
But for the other ones? Come on bro, you need to be able to maintain owning a home. This is common sense. I agree that everyone should get housing, but this video is claiming that the only reason why homelessness exists is due to the great evils of capitalism. That’s why I hate political ideologies as a whole. It’s not about problems and solutions, it’s about maintaining ones political belief system and making all problems fit through the lenses of that ideologies world view.
It operates like a fucking religion. That’s why I’m against both left and right wing ideas. We need to move forward and stop idolizing the diluted writings of the past (Marx included).
@@calmexit6483 whilst true in some cases it’s not the universal case and in many cases the drugs and alcohol come after the homelessness. Give people a stable footing and when they you how they can repay you tell them to be better. For a lot of people that commitment is enough to kick that with some help. These people are not guilty they’re the victims.
Honey wake up, new Gravel Institute video just dropped
LETSGOOO
Thanks for showing us a vision of a more just society. You guys are doing such a great job at spreading the ideas and knowledge! The more people that understand how we can improve the lives of everyone, the more chances of us actually getting there.
How does inflicting poverty, starvation, and homelessness on people make their lives better? That's all he's offering.
Too bad it totally ignores human nature. Thats why this stuff doesnt work
@@evensgreymisrepresenting the arguments of others isn't a good way to get any of your own points across
@@someonenotnoone And random interjections unrelated to the comments of the person you address them to is an ineffective way to distract people from questions about the repeatedly observed outcomes of their demanded policies.
@@evensgrey what point in the video does the presenter offer what you claimed? You're conflating unintended effects in your mind with what the presenter is offering
exactly - housing needs to be provided and supervised by people who care about other people and want everyone to have a decent home - not by people who don't care about other people and put money first before people - it's all silly and completely upside down. using the shelter that people need as solely another way to make profit is really out of place :)
it really is despicable that we live in a “developed” country that is completely uninterested in solving homelessness
It is really despicable how people who don’t contribute can so eagerly insist that others give them everything.
@@Billsbob did you see the part where 100,000 students are homeless in New York City alone?
@@Billsbob it is really despicable that people don’t understand how cheap it would be to provide housing to the homeless. I know you don’t want to “give people everything”, but housing would only be a few billion which compared to how our spending is scaled that’s only a few dollars per person to solve a huge problem. The amount of people it would help that are homeless due to laziness is very negligible and honestly it would be statistically a waste of time to even factor them in considering how cheap the policy is to enact and how few of them exist.
instead, it vilifies them :(
@@Billsbob what the fuck do you think taxes are
Weird people: "Housing is NOT a human right!!!"
Me: "Yes, and that's the problem."
*watches the weird people approach the point*
ua-cam.com/video/AhRBsJYWR8Q/v-deo.html
This video is a very interesting left wing perspective on how human rights have always existed in a political contested form. Ideological cementing victories of protests while being eroded as struggle movements weaken, rather than ever being things which are universally accepted in liberal societies.
Hi Rocco, again
@@blobmetropolis7707
Yooo that looks interesting
then make it a right with your guns
These exapmpkes of social housing from Austria really blow my mind. Thank you for video :).
Here in America, Corporations rule everything. Even when it comes to buying a home, youll be out bid by a Corporations paying 10K over asking price. Then theyll "fix" up the house and sell it for 50K to 100K more, causing that area to become unaffordable. Im from LIC, born and raised and ill never be able to afford a house here. This is causing me to look at cheaper states to move to.
Prager U's new arch-nemesis.
A person Don't need to be socialist to support free house,
And PragerU is poop anyways
@@lucaslevinsky8802 I don't want the house, I'll just take the monetary equivalent.
Both of these channels are totally insane
@@tornadodex1366 this channel says that they wanting solving this problem, and call this "socialism"
@@hamnchee ok, you get $600 a month. Now try and find a place to rent for that amount. You won't find it. Unless you mean the difference between rent there and rent here, so 1900. You will still get worse housing that a properly de-comodified housing option because the landlord will cut corners to ensure their costs are minimized. Why wouldn't you want objectively better housing for cheaper?
Ending homelessness should be a fundamental bedrock of humanity. It affects everything. Jobs, productivity, mental health, physical health, and fundamental respect for fellow humans
Agreed. The underclasses don't make very good wage slaves when they are homeless and can't spend their money on consumeristic crap, so it's imperative we fix it.
If America wants to be Pro-Life than homes, medical and education should be a foundation of society. Yet Pro-Life as it exists right now seems to only be a talking point to argue against socialism... it doesn't make any sense!
Americans have the right to speech and kill. The rest of the developed world has the right to education, healthcare , healthy food and housing.
@@DragonXflyer Pro-Life is not a “talking point” to argue against socialism people have different beliefs that you and think it is genuinely wrong to take the life away from a fetus bc it is the same as taking the life away from a born baby in some people’s eyes. Socialism in and of itself is literally just a talking point - it is the fantasy of a delusional ideologue who does not have any grasp on reality.
@@MrGoodeats the pro lifers only care until that child is born, then its fend for yourself.
If they actually cared about being pro life they would mean all life, not just unborn babies.
Great video!
We also need walkable mixed use neighborhoods with good public transit
Vienna is such a beautiful example. Because of their history, it is one of the only cities in middle europe not suffering from a housing crisis!
Even capitalist founding father Adam Smith thought landlords were leeches.
Yup he also supported a welfare state he would be disgusted if he saw how capitalism turned out
As i said sarcastically in another comment and am too lazy to reword: "The underclasses don't make very good wage slaves when they are homeless and can't spend their money on consumeristic crap, so it's imperative we fix it."
People being "out of the system" doesn't benefit anyone in the long term
@@willdbeast1523 The counter to that is "if people are secure in their homes and have enough to eat no matter what, they won't stay in crappy jobs through fear"
I'd see that as a good thing, many will argue that communism is bad while talking about stalin.
He also thought education should be tax funded. Health care is cheaper when provided by state that is by taxes. All this has nothing to do with socialism. It is just allocating resources. Socialism is just used as a scare word in us.
@@mrman991 communism is bad, but that is just avoiding discussion. People might not stay in poorly paid jobs, good, you have to pay them more. If you can't, go bust, your business is not viable that is free enterprise
Excellent video.
This was always the confusing part. How can the real productive economy just sit back and allow FIRE to destroy the consumer base? The more tenants have to pay in rent, the less they have for anything else.
Couldn’t believe my eyes when the legendary gravel institute was talking about my city! Love your work. Solidarity from Vienna!🤟🚩
Okay, anecdotal fact check. How does the social housing program do in your opinion?
@@matthewarnold4557 I live in Vienna as a university student and I can say it's really amazing
@@thekonsti4712 I'm happy for you. I live in the state of New York. Which is known as one of the more liberal states. And the best we have is the excelsior program. Which will pay for up to 8 years of higher education to any New York State resident. However they have to live in New York after they graduate for the amount of time they were in school. It's a decent program but such a far cry from what are European counterparts enjoy
@@matthewarnold4557 I've lived in Vienna for decades, and the social housing program does great. Not only does it provide low-cost rental properties for people of average means, but apartment buildings are also sometimes privatized. Not privatized like in the US, but the people who have lived there a long time (usually you have to have lived there for like 10 years to keep speculators out) are given first right of purchase, and their years of rent are used as "pre-paid" down payment, so they can afford to buy. This allows more people to become homeowners, which not only allows them to build wealth but also strengthens the community.
Karl Marx Hof (in the video) was a singular kind of public housing project. The vast majority of buildings are nice, but not so extravagant. Note as well that it is not just for individuals. I have my office in a mixed-use public housing building. The ground floor is only for shops, the first floor ["2nd floor" in the US] is mixed with apartments and offices, and the other 5 floors are only apartments. As a Viennese business in good standing (long time in business, never any back taxes) I was able to get an office here at less than 1/2 the square meter rental price my previous office, which was on the same street and of the same quality. Huge savings. It took longer to move in as I had to wait on approval while they checked out my company, but that was the only "disadvantage." I could go on and on about the advantages for me as a business owner and as part of the community.
[edit - mixed up ground and first floor]
@@ViennaGuy2000 wow I wish I can move there once I’m 18
Ayoo algorithm magic here we goooooooo
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Is it thee, oh mighty Al-Gore-Rhythm?
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Algorithm will provide housing for everyone
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It was also not only Vienna. Multiple cities in Germany did this, too. Including my homecity. It was all build modern an partially by artists from the state of the art Bauhaus at the time. They came from Berlin and Weimar and they changed a LOT in the city both building up new (housing, power plant, gouvernance, hospital, swimming but even small newspaper sellers) in the new style and upgrading existing stuff, mostly with colors. It was a big leap for the city and we need something like this again. Not the same, but with the same spirit.
I love this video. I wish America wasn’t so beholden to big corporations with their lobbying money. I am skeptical it won’t change because it’s so much money being made by the rich and even some loss due to making affordable housing is unacceptable despite those companies trying to highlight their philanthropy.
It would be better to just move to Vienna and pay taxes there then to work for the US that supports what you don't believe in. Book a flight now!?
@@jakeshota4050 "Oh you don't like slavery, why don't you move to Britain instead of staying here" - you if you were alive during the 1830s.
@Fa1con yeah bc in the 1830s, it's just as easy today to buy a plane ticket that will take you anywhere in the world.... Air travel wasn't even around in the 1800s, and people may not even know about how living situations are in other countries. You pretend that you're stuck in one country and can't leave to move to wherever you want, but don't like the system you live in? Make it make sense.
I also find it very admirable how the Austrian government could be so proactive. They just saw a problem and they solved it. No whining about spending, no hours of debate, no NIMBY complaints, just do it.
"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food." - William Wordsworth
In Western Europe, we play musical chairs. In USA, they play musical houses.
Whoa. Took me a moment to get this, but it's so true.
well in Western Europe housing is not cheap either. Only place that cheap in developed world is japan because they have very low immigration. New york has housing problem because immigration force things to be that way. immigration cause land cost to go way up causing gut of luxury homes. in places that have slow growth housing is more affordable. in cedar rapids Iowa rent is 450 to 600. in new york because of immigration is 2000 dollars. Another problem is democrat party is corrupt so they build very expensive and few public housing. Also do not realized the concept of saturation which why new york city will not be cheap unless less land is zone for business and more for residential. Serveral cities have have more jobs than housing.
@@spark300c People who are employed in the city should always be able to find affordable housing. The less they are victims of rent-seeking landlords, the more taxes they can pay to the city...
Cities grow at a steady and predictable rate, so a city with a functioning government should never be overwhelmed by immigration. They should have 5, 10 and 20 year plans which account for the expected development. The current situation in many cities is all on the incompetence and corruption of politicians.
In a residence association, of which I am a member/resident, the rent goes towards maintainance and administration of the apartments in the "block". You don't pay more because the demand is higher. The government and residence associations meet the demand by building more houses. That is a housing model that makes sense, I think...
@@christianpetersen163 cities go not always grow a predictable rate sometime they explode. going form 2,000 to 100,000 in ten years. Before they grew very slowly for decades. the fact is certain cities are overwhelmed by immigration because it can change the rent landscape very quickly.
also start to run into density issues and land value issues. vancouversun.com/life/immigrants-have-major-impact-on-canadas-housing-prices-study/
@@christianpetersen163are you a libertarian socialist?
Denmark, Sweden, France--so many countries have already solved the social problems that plague the United States--housing, medical care, education, prisons. Why can't we take the best solutions from these other countries, copy it, and then implement it here? Why reinvent the wheel? It has to be the quickest way to fix these issues. England (and other countries) stopped slavery pretty quickly and peacefully twenty years or more before us, but we learned nothing from their example. The US had to fight a civil war then endure 60+ years of Jim Crow, then another 60 years of ongoing unrest, social decay, and injustice. Americans need a paradigm shift. We need to stop worrying about "someone getting something for free," and begin working for the betterment of all, for the striving of our country to "live out the true meaning of our creed" (MLK). The more services we can provide for each other, the better the society we are going to have for ourselves.
Loved it, keep it up
“In other countries, housing is seen as a fundamental right like education or healthcare”
*Cries in American*
As a Canadian I think it’s a bit relative. Canada is seen as a haven where nothing is wrong and we all bathe in maple syrup and have snowball fights but the same issues in America are mirrored pretty much everywhere just perhaps less severe. There’s a large group of Canadians who want to adopt an American style private healthcare industry and we have a lot of pretty far right people in the government. (Namely Quebec but that’s a uniquely Canadian issue) we also have a lot more homeless people than we’d care to admit to our southern friends and there are big company’s taking government money that could be better spend on the people *cough* bombardier *cough* I can’t speak of Europe but looking st British news I’d say it’s a similar situation everywhere. I say we need a global government of socialism, one big happy democracy like Star Trek but less war
@@a_human8489 You literally admitted a large group of people want to adapt a capitalist life style and then proceeded to say there should be global socialism.... 🤦🏾♂️ wow.
@@a_human8489 Obviously the Canadians who want to abolish your single payer healthcare system are wrong, American healthcare sucks for the poor and middle class
@@the1427 If 10 million people want something then yeah, that’s a large group of people. However, if the other 90 million people of the society want the opposite, then yeah, you should do the opposite.
@@dar-wv4pr 90 million people DONT want socialism lmaoooooo have you not seen Cuba!? The civilians there even said they hate it there there isn't a large group of people anywhere that want socialism.
"In other countries, housing is considered a fundamental right..."
Me: Ayy, that'd be nice to have in America.
"... just like education and healthcare."
Me: Those to.
There are two types of right, positive and negative rights, what he is doing is blurring the line between the two to make his point, other countries and the USA have negative rights that lets them buy a house without someone being able to interfere with that, what he is doing is making you believe that every other country has positive rights, aka, you place your duty on others to accomplish them, like say, high quality public healthcare or housing, and even with all that, usually, you pay more taxes for everything you are getting "free" than what you would pay without taxes
@@skylex157 I'm doubting that you even watched the video if you're citing costs here.
The whole point of the housing market he addressed is that the "negative" right to housing merely gave people the freedom to face expensive or unaffordable housing. Can you really point to affordability when the video directly states housing costs are a significant financial burden?
Healthcare too. I'm not here to say "Europe best omg" but guess what: *the U.S. pays more per capita or proportion of GDP than European countries* . People can't go "think of the costs" when we're paying more, just to a private system. That also ignores that U.S. healthcare often adds financial emergencies to medical ones, which is a wonderful way to cripple productivity and quality of life.
I won't delve on education much, but I will say that I rarely see people who oppose free or cheaper tertiary education complaining that student debt companies convinced Congress to make it nearly impossible to declare bunkruptcy. Won't anyone think of the billionaires?
Negative rights have a valid foundation in freedom from abuse from tyranical monarchies. But here, it seems more than content to let cripplingly one-side dynamics play out for no other reason than "well, it's not the government doing it." Not to mention the "invisible" costs of having a society facing housing uncertainty and/or crippling debts. Where do you think unrest comes from? But most of all, just the fact that you pull the "taxes are expensive" when each of these three (necessary) things are a major financial burden each shows how your point is entirely based in theory and nothing else.
@@scottgrey3337 the market works with signals, each time anyone sells something, it emits a signal the market receives, by using everyone´s money to make social housing, you send misleading signals to the market, for example, you make 1000 homes in 2 weeks, then all the prices of the houses go down, because there is more supply for the same demand.
or that is what it would happen, if 1, the owners didn´t increase the cost of the house to account for taxes, or 2, get their houses out of the market, as now they give less profit, this houses that left the market means increase in cost, as now there is less supply, this wouldn´t be a problem in a minor scale, but going all out on it, will make it so every private owner would keep their house and sell them for a ludicrous amount of money, ending up in everyone spending even more money to give homes to the homeless
also, as you increase the pressure on the people with money, their desire to leave the country will increase too, up to the breaking point where they go away, leaving the country with no tax income from them at all, politicians will notice that, increase/create rich taxes, magnifing the problem, i live in argentina, we have social housing and we are shit because all the people with money are fleeing the country, but destroying the US economy destroys the global economy too, as a ton and a half of countries depend on the US economical stability
@@skylex157 Once again, most of your point solely deals in theory, and conveniently leaves out the fact that despite all the reasons you give that it *should* work, the video is specifically addressing how housing is unaffordable *despite* the market running things.
It also missed most of my point that the economy as-is constitutes an enormous financial burden on those least able to carry it. Or that smart approaches to problems ends up being more helpful *and* cheaper than spouting platitudes about free market for free market's sake.
But you do appreciate you mentioning Argentina, that's a valid point. In counter, though, I live in the U.S. where a number of friends working full time struggle with housing, medical, and education costs that will hinder them for decades. Most of this is because the relationship is so one-sided against the consumer, often to the point that companies get assistance from the government while complaining if the other way around happens.
If the U.S. is an economic powerhouse that fuels half the world, how does it make sense that people are working full time for jobs they spent years studying for and can still *barely* cover the costs of living?
@@scottgrey3337 my grandpa almost died because the goverment spend 4 years doing shit instead of lettig him have a heart surgery, they waited until he was literally in permanent nausea because blood didn't get to his brain to give him the pass
Also, here, WITH social housing, we still have housing problems, my mom spent 17 years from rent to rent, she had to inheret a house to finally be able to settle, and that was just because we are kinda lucky in that aspect, and had a house to inheret, my dad lived with his parents up to his mid 30 and was only able to build a house because a neighbour was freaking dying and said "give me whatever money you want, and i give you this house" and got his for an incredibly low amount, and even with all of this, they were paying for others to be housed instead of being able to own their houses themselves, you think capitalism is stacked against the consumer? At least they don't enter you house and put you in jail for not agreeing with them, i'm not saying capitalism is the ultimate system, i, in fact, think that once we automated most of the manufacturing, we will live with a welfare state, but that's because machines do not have incentives, humans do, and not understanding them is what will always cause social things to be worse than private ones
Even worse, the AirBnB market is turning regular homes and apartments into (mostly illegal) hotels. In the city I'm from, an estimated 17,000 units are off the market as Short Term Vacation Rentals, up over 800% since 2015.
This was really helpful!
I can't tell if he is wearing a dress or not but at least it will make conservatives mad
I think it’s a sherwani, a traditional Indian clothing.
whatever it is it is super cool
@@leftisbest4666 I was wondering what it was called, it looks really cool!
Looks like a thawb, which is a traditional Arab robe that men wear.
Pretty sure it's a kurta.
The Gravel Institute needs more views.
The gravel institute is for people with idiotic dreams of utopia.
@@goldwater1984 except that they provide examples of their views actually working
@@goldwater1984 cry
I will give them some!
@@goldwater1984 LOL are you an oligarch?
great video a good eye opener .... thanks for sharing
1:32 Not true and the opposite is the problem, housing ISN'T being treated as a commodity or a consumer product, but an investment, like fine art or some stuff like that, THAT is the issue.
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do more community stuff like polls to increase user interactions, it’ll boost your position in the algorithm
They need to do this
Hell yeah
A kapo or prisoner functionary (German: Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
Also called "prisoner self-administration" (German: Häftlingsselbstverwaltung), the prisoner functionary system minimized costs by allowing camps to function with fewer SS personnel. The system was designed to turn victim against victim, as the prisoner functionaries were pitted against their fellow prisoners in order to maintain the favor of their SS overseers. If they were derelict, they would be returned to the status of ordinary prisoners and be subject to other kapos. Many prisoner functionaries were recruited from the ranks of violent criminal gangs rather than from the more numerous political, religious, and racial prisoners; such criminal convicts were known for their brutality toward other prisoners. This brutality was tolerated by the SS and was an integral part of the camp system.
Prisoner functionaries were spared physical abuse and hard labor, provided they performed their duties to the satisfaction of the SS functionaries. They also had access to certain privileges, such as civilian clothes and a private room.
The SS used domination and terror to control the camps' large populations with just a few SS functionaries. The system of prisoner guards was a key instrument of domination, and was commonly called "prisoner self-government" in SS parlance.
The camp draconian rules, constant threat of beatings, humiliation, punishment, and the practice of punishing whole groups for the actions of one prisoner were psychological and physical torments on top of the starvation, and physical exhaustion from back-breaking labor. Prisoner guards were used to push other inmates to work harder, saving the need for paid SS supervision. Many kapos felt caught in the middle, being both victims and perpetrators. Though kapos generally had a bad reputation, many suffered guilt about their actions, both at the time and after the war, as revealed in a book about Jewish kapos.
Many prisoner functionaries, primarily from the ranks of the "greens" or criminal prisoners, could be quite ruthless in order to justify their privileges, especially when an SS man was around. They also played an active role in the beatings, even killing fellow prisoners. Some guards were personally involved in the mass murder of other prisoners.
An eager prisoner functionary could have a camp "career" as an SS favorite and be promoted from Kapo to Oberkapo and eventually to Lagerältester, but he could also just as easily run foul of the SS and be sent to the gas chambers.
"The moment he becomes a Kapo, he no longer sleeps with them. He is held accountable for the performance of the work, that they are clean, that the beds are well-built. [...] So, he must drive his men. The moment we become dissatisfied with him, he is no longer Kapo, he's back to sleeping with his men. And he knows that he will be beaten to death by them the first night." - Heinrich Himmler, June 1944
REPLYING TO COMMENT - so algorithm sends it up, so Gravel Ins. sees it.
YES DO THIS IT HELPS A LOT!
This reminds me of the time socialist policies got us out of the Great Depression, and when we started reversing Great Depression policies like the Glass-Steagal act, we ran into the 2008 recession.
Didn't FDR's policies prolong the depression in hindsight?
To be a bit pedantic, the new deal still wasn’t socialism. It was *social democracy.*
@@tardlyfe3571 soon after he implemented his policies, the depression got better. It's safe to say that he did good.
It helped the American people that were in need and created the middle class.
@@purplepotatoes9255 No, it isn't safe at all. You people are proudly economically illiterate.
Keep it up!