02-16-2023, 12:44 PM
(02-16-2023, 12:26 PM)plam Wrote: In other countries, say New Zealand, there was a notion of "state houses".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_housing
The NZ government built thousands of houses (sadly, mostly houses and not apartments). When the conservatives (the National Party) get in they tend to sell these houses to... speculators... and then when Labour gets in they try to build more houses. There was a promise by the current government about building tons of houses and they only built kilograms of houses so far, but at least it's not negative progress and they're trying to improve on it (while backpedalling on the "tons" part of the promise).
It sure is exhausting watching people vote for conservative governments which then proceed to grift public assets to their friends.
I'm not saying other governments are better, but it's a little on the nose given conservatives are the ones who almost always use "corruption" as a talking point.