I consider the price of real estate one of the worst effects of fiat currencies and what's avoiding many people to get married and make babies. Having a construction business, I tend to build buildings that nobody is building so I can charge higher prices acting in a niche market. Recently I had the idea of building some industrial line for building kind of the same building in repetition using steel instead of beton which would optimize costs and time a lot. Naturally it would be a product like the ford T, somewhat a fiat thing but would allow many young people to have a two/three bedroom apartment. Another idea would be to make some sort of open source real estate project from that idea, making it available for free for other businesses around the world. What do you think?
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7 Mar
Aren't a number of developers trying to do this with tiny homes? Homes about the size of a shipping container, perhaps even made out of a shipping container.
And yes you are right that the skyrocketing price of housing is a symptom of fiat, but also the over regulation of land use by the state
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Butterfinger OP 8 Mar
Yes, but tiny is like against the philosophy and nature of making big families with many babies.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 7 Mar
Making it open source and allowing them to put the idea to proper use would be wonderful👌
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13 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB 7 Mar
Do you mean something like modular construction?
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95 sats \ 2 replies \ @Butterfinger OP 8 Mar
Kind of, I mean like apartment buildings around 6-12 floor, but maybe with steel and somewhat modular in the sense of using the same project again and again to gain a lot of scale. Something like it: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/watch-china-build-10-story-building-in-a-day-06-24-2021/
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 8 Mar
I think the issue with this is zoning and permitting
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Butterfinger OP 8 Mar
Well it's harder if each project is different. But yes, the state is always there.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @orto 8 Mar
Awesome idea.
There are a lot of refugees in our country. As a result of these huge refugee population, the house and rent prices have soared within a decade. Thus the living cost sky rocketed here.
I'm writing from Türkiye.
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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @User21000000 8 Mar
The housing market is great for those with all the houses but terrible for those that want to get into it . Tiny homes seem to be affordable but a lot of people need something bigger like me with 4 kids haha
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Butterfinger OP 8 Mar
Yes, the cantillon effect, but keep in mind that many people have bigger houses/apartments than they really need. A bigger house can often mean less or no kids too. Anyway my idea is to build real estate that is actually useful as a place to live, not to be used as store of value or "investment".
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @User21000000 8 Mar
That would be great if you work it out
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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 8 Mar
What you need is a government composed mostly of engineers (like the Chinese poliburo) rather than a government (like USA today) composed mostly of rentseeking corporate lobbyists, real estate speculators and bankers cronies.
Before the neoliberal deregulation of banking in the 1980s commercial bankers had to be funding useful productive purposes- since the neoliberal market deregulation they can fund anything and its mostly been housing- causing the speculative debt fueled property price bubble you see all across the western world. Prior to neoliberal deregulation housing was almost entirely funded by non profit mutual providers removing the speculative and rentseeking that has developed since those regulations were dismantled by neoliberal politicians owned by bankers.
It is the MISUSE of fiat that is the major problem and driver of escalating house prices.
The MISUSE enabled by neoliberal deregulation of fiat banking.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Butterfinger OP 8 Mar
I am not keynesian pal, nor willing to have anything to do with govts, subsidies and sugar.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 8 Mar
Strong economies cannot exist without good government.
If you disagree show me where and when that has ever occurred.
Hpusing price escalation since 1980s are due to neoliberalisms capture of western governments and their removal of restraints upon the purpose for which commercial banks can issue fiat debt funding.
Restraints which restricted commercial banks to the issuance of funding for productive purposes.
Keynesian theory prohibits the misuse of fiat debt issuance that neoliberals have used to inflate housing prices making it a parasitic debt fueled ponzi scheme.
If you do not understand this you do not understand the nature of the problem and are very unlikely to find a solution to it.
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