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Bill: Public Housing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Work-Shy Elements
Status[?]: passed
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: September 2421
Description[?]:
| We propose selling off the government's housing stock (boosting home ownership) and devolving control over public housing. Local governments will be able to pursue the policy best suited to the areas they oversee, reducing waste and creating greater local accountability. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Current: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Proposed: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:34:52, June 28, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Public Housing Act |
| Message | The down side of this is that the citizens of one nation may be placed in a position where their peers in a different region are far better cared for because that government has decided to look after its constituents, while the local government has decided to pander to all ready too powerful oligarchical private interests. We support devolution, but this is a short sighted and potential very dangerous move that could detrimentally affect thousands of our citizens. As such, we will not support it. |
| Date | 00:00:18, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Union of Work-Shy Elements | To | Debating the Public Housing Act |
| Message | One of the principle purposes of devolution is to allow regional variation. How can you support one but not the other? |
| Date | 09:08:22, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Public Housing Act |
| Message | "Variation" when it comes at the expense of people's welfare and livelihood is not variety at all, but rather discrimination. And we do not support discrimination. |
| Date | 15:23:25, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Union of Work-Shy Elements | To | Debating the Public Housing Act |
| Message | We value local democracy and devolution over some misguided sense of leftist solidarity. |
| Date | 16:48:40, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Public Housing Act |
| Message | That is a demonstrable false hood as your party has refused to support local democracy when it comes to people electing their own mayors. No, as usual, this is another sad attempt to pander to big business at the expense of the well being lively hood of our people. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 182 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 157 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real life-life nationalities, cultures or ethnicities should not be referenced in Particracy (eg. "German"). |
| Random quote: "Envy is the cause of political division." - Democritus |