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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] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

like a normal social democracy would do.

Any examples?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours 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