In this video we outline:
How to build enough affordable housing for everyone.
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.
MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
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CONTENTS:
0:00 Hello fellow kids / Introduction
2:32 Khosro’s $435 USD, 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of Montreal
4:08 The no-equity cooperative
8:12 Why aren’t there more no-equity 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 achilles heel of public housing
19:15 Dealing with inflated land costs
20:19 Densification vs building new neighbourhoods
21:27 How to phase out rental housing
22:40 How to phase out the 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 today!
28:03 Do dis now!
28:30 In the meantime / gimme