Would be a more productive use of the administration's time than a rule that can be undone just as easily.
You're absolutely correct that many Americans don't care about Palestinian people, but the ones that do could very well swing the election. Each day the lip service continues that number grows. We are currently at "I'm warning you, for real this time" levels.
This murder was so precise you can still read the marking on roof.
Edit: Hey look a coward let us know their presence by downvoting and not replying. Typical behavior from someone who supports killing civilian volunteers that are trying to minimize a genocide.
I'm not arguing against Ukraine, it's fucking dumb and a terrible strawman. These two situations couldn't be more different.
Russian invaded Ukraine in 2014 and nobody did shit, of course they were going to do it again.
Do you know what the One China policy is? That's American policy. Do you think a country can invade itself? Do you think it's worth it to go to war with China over Taiwan?
You have no clue what your talking about and your strawman has been repeated ad nauseum in this thread.
What do you consider public housing? Is section 8 not public housing? You realize people in section 8 still pay rent.
Are you aware of what community land trusts are? It's how I was able to become a home owner in my sleepy little hometown of Seattle. Government builds/buys the house, sells it at below market prices to people pre-approved for the program and its first come first sold. You as a homebuyer agree that the house will only be sold to other approved buyers in the program at a fixed rate (there is a small equity increase each year lived in the home to cover upkeep and improvements). The city technically owns the land my house is on, but idgaf because my mortgage is about $1,500 cheaper per month than what a unit of equal size would cost us to rent on the open market. I had no chance in hell of buying. This is the way housing should be for everyone, I had friends forced to move away because their previous years income was literally $1,000 over qualifying for the same program. So when I read "Beijing would impose severe restrictions on who could buy these apartments and would forbid purchasers from trading their units on the open market." it sounds exactly like the program that has given my family a home. That's fucking rad and I wish the US would do the same to expand public housing to 30% of the market, it would do a lot to negate the insanity that is our housing market.
So that is how public housing can be rented or sold and still be public housing.
Does it stabilize the market, yes that's obviously the point. However it's not a bail out ála US too big to fail. The businesses that are insolvent will deal with the consequences and the government gets rock bottom prices.
China is spending 8x more than the US on housing, while we are spending billions funding a genocide, while our homeless problems are magnitudes more than 8x China's and your still trying to justify the war mongering of this "article" with their real estate market. This is not the problem the media is making it out to be.
What the authorities refer to as “a new model” would replace the old emphasis on ownership with more rentals and use government funds to buy up bankrupt properties so that in time the government’s role in real estate would rise from 5% of the market at present to 30%.
Beijing will commit the equivalent of $280 billion a year for five years to buy up distressed private residential real estate developments and repurpose them as rental units. The plans also mention building still more units, some subsidized rentals, for a total of six million new units in 35 cities over the next five years. Beijing would impose severe restrictions on who could buy these apartments and would forbid purchasers from trading their units on the open market.
From what I have seen the downturn in the real estate market has been planned. The government over incentivized real estate growth so that private companies would over leverage and then the government could buy up these properties for pennies on the dollar to make them public. Of course western media is going to report on it like the sky is falling, it's a communist country out maneuvering capitalism.
I have plenty of criticism for the CCP but the current real estate market really could be some 3d chess, and if so good for them. We will have to see how it plays out.
I strongly disagree meta's involvement is necessary for the fediverse to grow and become big. Snowballing is a very real thing and as long as growth continues to happen, that will encourage more growth.
The threat of meta is a huge jump in growth, and communities that then centralize around those users. Once popular communities are established on meta servers, they have control. If they choose to split or defederate those communities on the non-meta side of the fence would be back to square one building from scratch. That is the problem and if we don't see it for what it is we will be left with nothing.
Always preferred Tengger Calvery over The Hu.