The housing crisis doesn't really exist

I know this is going to be a controversial take but it is my opinion and I have had a lot of people agree with me on this.

If the government really wanted to house every person in this state, they could start the process tomorrow morning and within a year this aim would be achieved.

Putting all politics and views aside, look at Mariupol. The city was completely destroyed and within a few months Russia has already completed several brand new apartment blocks and is continuing reconstruction of infrastructure at a rapid pace. Of course, I'm not suggesting the government should bring out the army to demolish large areas with artillery killing thousands of residents in the process, I am simply pointing out that if you cut out the BS and just begin building immediately it is very much possible. Likewise look at China, they rapidly build these huge ghost cities and then demolish them just so they spend their money in something. There are many videos on YouTube of people who build huge mansions in Africa and they are finished in a few months.

Meanwhile in Ireland it takes two weeks to build a garden shed.

Obviously the key reason for the success of the above projects is because they are all in places that have no regulation due to authoritarian goveenment. That obviously doesn't apply here and of course amongst some of those buildings there will be serious design flaws. But they underlying fact remains:

They're just buildings, after all. It's literally cement, iron, glass and insulation, shaped into a structure. Once you remove all of the bureaucracy like permits and artificially high prices and other horseshite, it's fairly cheap.

The government offers overpriced housing because they don't want anyone to own anything, they want a class of subscribers or renters. This is why young people in this country will never be able to afford their own home. There is no crisis, it is entirely in the government's gift that this is the way things are.

The way the government does this is through natural market mechanisms. These two policies are responsible:

1. Low (negative) interest rates mean people have too much access to credit. If prospective buyers can borrow millions, then the price of housing will be bid up by prospective buyers.

2. Negative interest rates mean that inflation is higher than interest rates. Money can no longer sit in savings accounts or bonds. Buyers, who otherwise would have sat in savings accounts and bonds, suddenly have to invest. As a result, you have even more buyers of real estate, driving the price even higher.

The solution, in my honest opinion, is commie blocks. After WW2 the USSR was crippled by homelessness. They erected the quick-build 5-storey Khrushchevka everywhere and solved it.

This is sustainable. People want to live in houses if they get the choice, but as Mick Jagger says, You Can't Always Get What You Want. But If You Try Sometimes, You Might Find, You Get What You Need. And what we need is high-density accommodation which can be approved through such apartments.

Quick to build, it's basically putting slabs together. Most of these structures in the former USSR are still going strong, heating, plumbing etc. As we have seen in Ukraine many of them withstand intense shelling. There isn't any mica or pyrite crap over there they need to worry about.

This land the government wants to develop as announced today will inevitably be mostly houses. You can accommodate far more people in commie blocks. If the government were to fill all of that land with quick-build blocks they would practically solve the housing crisis. Commie blocks are actually quite good as explained in Adam Something's video on the matter:

Again, many people will disagree with what I have said, but I genuinely believe it's the way forward if the willpower was there.