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China does many things wrong but housing isn’t one of them.
Americans will decry the American housing crisis and simultaneously mock China for over production of housing which caused a housing price crash.
“I can’t afford a house!” “China is so stupid, they have empty cities.”
I don’t knock them for over production, but build quality is a more common problem that I saw. Also not a fan of not being able to own the apartment, but their availability is dope. Their public transit is also dope, both inter and intra city transit.
That’s always been my attitude. Yet the property taxes on the house I’ve lived in for 35 years keep going up based on what somebody else would pay for it if I sold it. Paying tax on the money I make if I ever do sell the house would make sense to me, but until that ever happens I’m being taxed on a number determined by real estate speculators. So what the actual fuck?
a great example of this country saying something and not doing anything resembling the idea at all. china has one of the most fucked real estate markets in the world. chinese speculation is notorious for fueling insane projects that fall apart, or wiping out working class communities with gentrification and displacing millions. the money pours into vietnam and cambodia where families lose their savings “investing in a condo” that hasn’t been built yet. china is a country run by an ultra capitalist mafia.
they built trains which are great. im a leftist too. but you guys, holy fuck.
