Why is there a housing crisis in countries like the US, Canada or Australia? They have so much fucking SPACE

Locals stop people from building more houses.
Locals also stop people from building apartments and condos.

America also has more empty houses than homeless. Maybe Canada too for all I know. Can't afford to give the owner a yacht? Better sleep on the street.

so why does no one live there?

>Not a single part of this list is true.

like what?

so build them in other locations, problem solved

you can't complain about lack of space

it's only a problem for godless suburbanites

Because houses don't grow on trees, and when some company builds one they expect to sell it for the same insane prices that are causing the housing crisis to begin with.

people don't just want a house. they want a house in a specific location. everybody else wants the exact same fucking location as well. this is why house prices are expensive, it's not the inability to build a house or the lack of land, it's the lack of space in a specific location.

>that's actually progressive, why would you live in anything but your own house with a garden, backyard and a pool?
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>The US has so much space so you could build more and more houses and the space never ends
a.k.a."I love spending 6 hours a day in a metal cage with glass cladding just to get to and from my 8 hours workday.

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My dream house is a minimalist 400sqft rectangle with a car port. How many legal issues would I be facing for not meeting societies minimum consumerism requirement?

I've seen so many homebuilding series on Discovery, do you want to tell me that not every North American can just take a hammer and build his own house in 3 weeks?

>it's not the inability to build a house or the lack of land, it's the lack of space in a specific location.

why can't you just found some new cities to relieve congestion in existing ones?

in the 19th century it was so common - tired of your town? go 100 miles away and found a new one

No, not even close. There are building codes and laws.

>There are building codes and laws.

what about muh freedom?

why can you legally kill someone who encroaches on your property but you can't build anything on this very property without tons of permits and shit

Houses aren't that bad, because US building code is shit tier. Things like thin plywood sheats wouldn't stand anywhere with winter.
Same with little to no insulation, or houses that isn't reinforced to withstand hurricanes.

That said, thats a non issue.
The real issue for a lot of devloped countries is that road do not grow on trees: It grows in 2 dimensions, meaning it has limited the more it stretches.
So do public infrastructure, which is limited by policy and vision. And housing/work locations.

because there is no point in adding new cities unless there is a reason to, either a transit hub or resource extraction. you can't just tell people to create a settlement for the sake of settlement, there needs to be a foundation.

existing cities offer the best amenities like schools, hospitals, stadiums, etc etc. they are highly desirable locations that offer things small towns cannot afford. so when people say they can't afford a place to live, it's not for the lack of a house, it's the lack of a house in the city they want to live in.

>because there is no point in adding new cities unless there is a reason to, either a transit hub or resource extraction. you can't just tell people to create a settlement for the sake of settlement, there needs to be a foundation.

so the reason is high housing prices in already existing cities

>existing cities offer the best amenities like schools, hospitals, stadiums, etc etc. they are highly desirable locations that offer things small towns cannot afford. so when people say they can't afford a place to live, it's not for the lack of a house, it's the lack of a house in the city they want to live in.

for some reason medium cities are seen as the most livable places, not the big ones

the countries with several medium cities seem to have better living standards than the ones with one dominant, huge city where prices are terrible

just like people in Germany never complain about housing prices because they're very affordable as they don't have any congested cities, especially comparing to the UK (London) or France (Paris).

It's just our tribute to your flag

for whatever reason people find medium sized cities more 'livable' is their own opinion. the matter of fact is that high population cities consistently attract more people every year and grow ever larger. people like large cities and will pay top dollar to live in them.

>people like large cities

only Asians do as they grow up in congestion, maybe Jews also

white people prefer nature and small towns, that's where white culture came from

Housing prices are kept high by speculators who need them to appreciate in value and retirees who have their entire life savings tied up in it. This is why the housing bubble collapse in 2008 nearly destroyed the US economy.
Newer houses have to be constructed in less desirable and more distant locations. Those houses have to be served by roads, pipes and sanitation infrastructure and nobody wants to spend money on those or indeed on even maintaining the infrastructure that currently exists.

There is. Rents are skyhigh everywhere. In small towns like Barrie rents are about the same as it would cost to live in Berlin, Germany. Think about how ridiculous that is.

The problem is manifold:
>mass immigration
>poor urban design
>boomer greed
>foreign manipulation

The RCMP warned Canada of the dangers of Chinese involvement in our real estate market and no one listened. Boomers are dying off, there should be fucking ghost towns filled with empty homes.

>white people prefer nature and small towns, that's where white culture came from
Fuck off peasant.

>that's actually progressive, why would you live in anything but your own house with a garden, backyard and a pool?
Variety of issues really. Increased commuting time. Weaker connection to the downtown. Car reliance. More environmental pollution - counter-intuitively dense cities are more eco-friendly. Also vastly increased costs of infrastructure.

Basically, sprawling suburbs are poor urban planning. The only actual advantage is convenience.

The future is in high rises.

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>housing crisis in the US

there isnt

it's a worldwide phenomenon, every continent is seeing a shift from rural to urban population.

>The future is in high rises.

Only in Asia.

Europe and North America should stay off this shit.

You can see it even in Poland, commies used to build tall commieblocks, now no one builds that tall, 5-6 floors are max. White people don't want to live in high rises.

>white people prefer nature and small towns, that's where white culture came from
Large, rich urban centers had a significantly larger impact on culture. Peasants couldn't devote time and resources to sophisticated culture but in the cities there were people specialized in just that, and the nobles who were patronizing over them.

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>Why is there a housing crisis in countries like the US, Canada or Australia? They have so much fucking SPACE.
Most people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere or due to work can live in the middle of nowhere.

Because their zoning laws are fucked from what I heard and building normal houses in cities (read apartments with shops at the bottom) is verboten. Also public transport in cities there usually sucks and due to forced non-discrimination the cities were abandoned to undesirables.

>it's a worldwide phenomenon, every continent is seeing a shift from rural to urban population.

really? here it's the other way around, people hate big, overcrowded cities and move to villages

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These are common in my area. You can often but one outright for 30-40k.

you think small.

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>Large, rich urban centers had a significantly larger impact on culture. Peasants couldn't devote time and resources to sophisticated culture but in the cities there were people specialized in just that, and the nobles who were patronizing over them.

>this comes from a Pole

our whole culture was created by nobles who lived in villages, nothing was contributed by city dwellers

>our whole culture
You mean drinking vodka and getting killed by Russians/Germans?

>In small towns like Barrie

That's just the Toronto cancer spreading, Barrie is within commuting distance. There are plenty of affordable cities in Canada, even major cities like Calgary or Edmonton.

oh fuck off pepik, when we had a great empire in the 16th century you didn't even have your own country

But I'm alright with mostly 5-6 floors in Poland and that what I refer to as 'high-rises' in this case. Poland is not as dense as South Korea, we don't need to go so high. But suburbs are even worse in the long term.

>White people don't want to live in high rises.
*You don't want to live in them.

Poland's culture is irrelevant and an outlier. The most influential countries in Europe in the course of history were Greece and Italy - both heavily urbanised, there was also France and the UK with the dominant role of Paris and London, or more "recently" there was Austro-Hungary with Vienna.

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Czechs ruled over the HRE once. Czech possessions included Berlin back then.

>our whole culture was created by nobles who lived in villages, nothing was contributed by city dwellers
"Culture"

The Netherlands has a housing crisis.

Not due to lack of space, but because boomers don't want their housing prices to decrease.

>But I'm alright with mostly 5-6 floors in Poland and that what I refer to as 'high-rises' in this case. Poland is not as dense as South Korea, we don't need to go so high. But suburbs are even worse in the long term.

so by this logic detached houses might be "high-rises" in the USA as they have a lot of space

>Poland's culture is irrelevant and an outlier.

Sure it is NOW irrelevant. It was pretty relevant in the 16th century, when it was created by village dwellers.

top kek, also Nietzsche and Merkel are Poles, also Hitler

He probably means in cities. That's applicable to the major cities of all three countries.

Cities also don't want to build in green areas.
And we lack construction workers. Because we just fired them all during the crisis.

>The Netherlands has a housing crisis.

I don't think so

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Houses increase in price about 10% a year.

if boomers can't block everything, why can't they block chinks flocking to your cities?

still nothing comparing to Australia or Canada I guess

>if boomers can't block everything

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Each month a house becomes 1550 euro more worth on average.

So if you start working you literally can't save money fast enough to buy a house.

>you didn't even have your own country
Wat? Kingdom of Bohemia was still very much around in the 16th century. The trouble with Assburgs started in 17th century.

>so by this logic detached houses might be "high-rises" in the USA as they have a lot of space

Your logical reasoning is quite poor indeed. How do you compare a detached house with a yard, to a 5-6 floor mid-rise that will accommodate 10-times more people on the same space?

>Sure it is NOW irrelevant. It was pretty relevant in the 16th century, when it was created by village dwellers.

It was never very relevant and influential outside of the Polish state itself, so yes, it was influential in Lithuania and the Rus' lands but those were part of the state back then. Surely it didn't go westwards. Post proofs if you claim otherwise.

Also, what culture are you referring exactly? Surely not the high culture. Can you give an example of anything sophisticated coming from those "village dwellers", aside from folk culture, that isn't ever able to influence anything non-local? Our main poets, Mickiewicz and Słowacki worked in the Western cities. Same with Chopin. Matejko worked in Kraków. And, actually Kraków was clearly the most influential cultural centre in the history of Poland. So again, it's a city.

Oh wait, in the last 12 months it was 1935 euro per month.

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Because everyone needs to live near the cities.

>Kingdom of Bohemia was still very much around in the 16th century.

German puppet state ruled by German kings where native Czechs didn't have anything to say (as they were only peasants you despise so much) and all elites were German speaking

What area out of curiosity?

>Your logical reasoning is quite poor indeed. How do you compare a detached house with a yard, to a 5-6 floor mid-rise that will accommodate 10-times more people on the same space?

because the US has much more space than us so they can build houses

>It was never very relevant and influential outside of the Polish state itself, so yes, it was influential in Lithuania and the Rus' lands but those were part of the state back then. Surely it didn't go westwards. Post proofs if you claim otherwise.

by this logic English culture wasn't really known in 16th century Poland but it doesn't mean it wasn't "big". Poland just had its own sphere of influence (eastern Europe).

> Can you give an example of anything sophisticated coming from those "village dwellers"

Rej, Kochanowski, Potocki, actually most of renaissance and baroque poets, writers, composers

Yeah, you are thinking of post-White Mountain Bohemia. But until Ferdinand (cucktholic cunt) II. took power in the 17th century, Czech estates held power in Bohemia and were decidedly not pawns.

Kansas but they are quite common all over the midwest and south

on the other hand, when your boomer parents already die, you'll inherit quite a lot of money

Basically what the US is having then.

Yes but their fat asses take it all up

Ok, how do I contact the Serbian mafia?

Are they actually nice houses or are they redneck shacks?

america doesnt have a housing crisis in the sense of an overall shortage. The only "crisis" we have is the lack of affordable housing in cities due to rising property values and gentrification which is almost always going to be a problem as a city develops and money flows in.

Calgary and Edmonton are hardly "affordable". Maybe they are marginally better than Toronto but you literally have to live in buttfuck, New Brunswick, or in Northern Ontario if you want a cheap house.

Increasing working hours from 8 to 14 would solve problem

We could also solve our housing crisis by simply stop subsidizing migrants to live in cities.
>stop giving them cash
>they are forced to move out of the premium locations in the city centers and move to rural areas
>suddenly the cities become white and cheap again

>because the US has much more space than us so they can build houses
Housing laws and environmental laws would like to have a talk with you.

Also, do you grasp the concept that houses cost money, the infrastructure to support says houses cost money, and there has to be a market for said people to buy those houses who can actually afford those houses. Then you have to account for the environmental costs of doing such an action, whether or not it is practical to even do this whole thing, if the budget can afford this new housing, if there is a net gain to this housing, if the town and state councils agrees to all this new housing, etc etc.

Just because you have "more space" doesn't mean it can be used immediately.

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2-3 bed 1 bath usually don't have a garage. Almost always built before the 60s. They are normal older homes.

>wanting to spread the shitskin infestation to even the small towns

socialism (taxes, particularly on the middle class, and too much regulation)

There are no foreigners in the north. Yet they are the most left wing of all. I hope they all go there.

Does Canada and Australia actually have that much space?

how can such petty issues like law be any problematic?

just change the law, jesus

>have to account for the environmental costs of doing such an action

leftist bullshit, American houses are made of wood, they are environment friendly

Sure if you're willing to live hours away from any civilization.

stop bickering about your irrelevant bydlo politics and talk about H O U S I N G

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He just explained that the problem isn't lack of space, but prices.

Banks give loans to buy houses to people who can't pay them back.

Banks then trade ownership of that debt to other people who think that those loans will be paid back.

Banks get their money. Buyers of loans go broke. People who can't pay back lose their houses to pay some of the money back.

Houses probably bought up for cheap by the same banks and sell it for higher prices.

Legalized crime is crazy.

>that's actually progressive, why would you live in anything but your own house with a garden, backyard and a pool?

Because having a big house with big yard and garden takes to much time to take care of. I live in my family house with all those mentioned and it takes me just 3 hours to move the lawn not to mention how many hours it takes to take care of the garden and cleaning entire hours.

because everyone wants to live in the cities, and cities ban homes over two stories

smart people move to b-list cities though

Bullshit, there's loads of work in places like Reno or Elk compared to San Francisco or San Jose.

t. grew up in tonopah

The fastest growing areas in the country aren't big cities fag

>because the US has much more space than us so they can build houses

They can. Is it economically and environmentally sustainable? No.

Cities are more efficient, richer, offer better opportunities and ultimately higher living standards.

>by this logic English culture wasn't really known in 16th century Poland but it doesn't mean it wasn't "big".

Stop attempting to speak from a "logical" point of view, you're a very poor logician.

English culture became globally influential. Polish cultural sphere of influence was restricted to some lands eastwards of the core. Again, urban culture wins and quite overwhelmingly.

>Rej, Kochanowski, Potocki, actually most of renaissance and baroque poets, writers, composers

Every single one of them received education in Kraków or a different city. Every single of those livelihoods was determined by the city. Villages never created anything sophisticated on their own, their output is negligible.

Excellent video, that taught me a lot. Thanks user