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Bill: Housing Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2370
Description[?]:
| Currently, all housing is privately owned and dealt. We propose that the government offer a livable and respectable housing program for families dealing with low-income problems. The government should take care of all of its people, not just the financially secure. Even the low-income populous of this nation are citizens too. We have to remember and include every citizen, every lifestyle, and every way of thinking in our legislation in the Supreme Council. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: All housing is private but rent is subsidised for low-income households.
Current: All housing is private but rent is subsidised for low-income households.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:37:33, March 06, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Republican Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | We are currently unsure of how to vote on this issue. Under the current proposal, the state will COMPLETELY pay for public housing for low-income families. While this keeps poor families off the streets, it also increases crime rates in the public housing area. In addition, it decreases the land-value in the surrounding area. This has been proven in numerous large U.S. and Canadian cities such as New York, Toronto, and Chicago. |
| Date | 19:01:39, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | And while you think of material value first, we think of taking care of the people. Once the people are helped, we can fully upgrade our image, if that's what matters to you most. |
| Date | 19:06:19, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Republican Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | We also think that low-income families should have to pay a small percentage of the rent for public housing. In the U.S. public housing system, a low-income individual cannot pay more than 25 percent of their income in rent. We believe this would be an effective system. |
| Date | 19:12:26, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | "We also think that low-income families should have to pay a small percentage of the rent for public housing. In the U.S. public housing system, a low-income individual cannot pay more than 25 percent of their income in rent. We believe this would be an effective system." What? We think that they should have to pay some, yet they can't pay more than 25 percent of the rent. We believe this is effective. Explain. We wish to learn more. |
| Date | 20:34:59, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Scientific Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | Right. Under current legislation, a poor person can move into a home of whatever quality they want, at whatever expense they want, and the government will provide a certain amount of money to assist them with the rent. Under proposed legislation, they will be forced to move into inefficiently-run government-run facilities, I'm imagining projects-style tenements. We fail to see how that's an improvement in any way. |
| Date | 20:58:01, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | "Under proposed legislation, they will be forced to move into inefficiently-run government-run facilities, I'm imagining projects-style tenements." You're certainly optimistic. If the government has the funding, it will not be as you depict it. |
| Date | 21:11:12, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Housing Reform |
| Message | Oh yes, and the government doesn't force low income citizens into the housing plan, it merely offers it to them. It is the citizen's decision to accept it or not. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 210 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 265 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 5 |
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