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foxaru LinkI think there are a few policies I would like to see forwarded in my own country WRT housing. Encourage housing as a resource and not a financial product by heavily taxing additional owned...I think there are a few policies I would like to see forwarded in my own country WRT housing.
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Encourage housing as a resource and not a financial product by heavily taxing additional owned properties. You could probably have a scheme where an organisation can apply for 'Residential Landlord' status, that comes with a fat property audit to assure quality of domicile but reduces the tax penalty.
If people are disincentivised to purchase property for any reason other than need, you're reducing demand without killing anyone or creating slums, hopefully resulting in lower prices. -
Ensure a certain proportion of all rented accomodation in your country is centrally owned social housing that cannot be purchased by private individuals. This probably means the state buying out properties as people sell up following the implementation of 1).
This social housing should not be used directly to make money for the local authority, but should instead just cover the upkeep and maintenance on quality, but not flashy, rented accomodation. The purpose of these houses is to ensure that the state can attack problems like homelessness more effectively. Maybe make it law that every development has X% of the units sold to the state at construction?
I believe the role of social housing is not just to provide housing to low-income families, it should serve as the absolute worst quality rented accomodation that can be accepted; that doesn't mean it should be bad housing, just that it should meet a minimum standard below which you cannot rent a place out. -
Disallow rent raising above inflation + x%; for context in my home city in 2022 we experienced an average rent increase of 40%, compared to the 10% or so UK inflation figure.
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I've been working my way through AoC'22 to help me learn Rust (as well as reading the book and doing rustlings), currently on Day 11: Monkey Keep Away! Part 1.
So far, I've built the Monkey struct to hold all the values and I've written parsing functions that transform the input into blocks of 7 lines that are then transformed into a Monkey.
The problem I envision running into next is how to iterate through a collection of mutable Monkeys with references to each other, such that they can pass items between one another. I'm thinking of building a struct MBox that holds a Vec of Monkeys, but we'll see!