In 1872, Frederick Engels concluded that “the so-called housing shortage plays such an important role in the press” is the result of the lack of housing for workers in industrialized European cities.
Engels understood that housing is political. If the market society cannot provide enough housing for workers, the housing problem will continue indefinitely. This article mainly focuses on the meaning of housing and a strategy-level explanation on the endless problems of housing in social development, as well as the role of politicians in solving problems in the real estate industry.
Regarding the issue of public housing, documentary filmmakers and urban scholars have also conducted research work, trying to participate in media reports and urban planning for reconstruction.
The decision is to help public tenants make wise choices. They usually have little choice or say in key debates and decisions about changing communities and houses.
Thoughts cannot slip
Finding an effective solution depends on asking the right housing problem. The public debate is full of evidence-based housing data about errors or possibly non-housing issues.
Housing supply and housing completion data answer common housing questions, but are usually premised on specific private housing types. The focus of housing market analysis is economic exchange, not housing use.
It can be said that the key housing issue is: Should we continue to adopt policies that encourage housing as a safe for capital increase, or should we reassess the residential use of housing, such as housing for the poor, workers and the elderly? In our city?
Asking about these uses of houses reminds us that people actually live in houses, and if they want to work in our city, people need housing.
The urban economy only works when all classes of society live in cities to provide a diverse labor force. In other words, it has to do with housing and work.
The policy of treating houses as abstract market commodities effectively devalues the tacit knowledge gained from how different people live in their houses and cities.
What is the core problem
At present, the problem of public housing reconstruction is concentrated on three levels. The “evidence base” revolves around recording “poverty concentration”, public housing assets and “economic models” are used as recording and summary methods to prove that the government’s agenda is completely sold or Lease public land and economic housing.
This evidence base limits the ability of residents to create alternative narratives about their houses and neighbors because they rely on different types of data and evidence. The media regularly publish stories about dysfunctional, dysfunctional and criminal public housing estates. These stories draw on the government’s evidence base, which is designed to support the government’s reconstruction agenda.
This evidence base and media reports often position the behavior of individual tenants rather than government policies as a housing issue. Because it is considered the problem, it is difficult for residents of public housing communities to participate in political processes and debates, and these debates and debates raise the so-called “housing problem” in our cities.
Need new methods and funding
If NAHA funds are reduced or NAHA is terminated, public housing problems will escalate sharply. Australia’s “housing crisis” will be truly called.
It is foreseeable that the social housing provided by non-profit organizations can be expanded, but this will take many years. Government rent assistance is still needed. Inclusive zoning is desirable and can provide services to low-income families, but it will never replace the demand for social housing.
