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Bill: Fair Housing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Corporate Raider 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: April 2098
Description[?]:
| As it is only fair that every person of age be responsible for his or her own shelter, no federal government assistance is to be provided for the construction, maintanence, rental or leasing of residential property, except that which is already owned directly by the federal government. |
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: All housing is privately-owned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:35:20, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | Ah, so now, rather than allowing them to save up and buy a home, those too poor to get onto the housing market will be made homeless? |
| Date | 12:13:03, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Corporate Raider Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | No...they can rent if they can't affored to buy. |
| Date | 21:20:21, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | Renting a house is generally very uneconomical. If demand increases, there will simply be too few rentable properties, and an increase of demand will lead to a price rise, which will leave poorer families unable to afford shelter. |
| Date | 23:28:58, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Corporate Raider Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | Then investors will build more rental property. We call it the "Theory of Supply and Demand." |
| Date | 00:58:07, August 19, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | The theory fails to take into account the facts firstly that practical considerations, like the time taken to build a house, mean that current residents in these schemes will be homeless for a significant period of time, and secondly that there are minima below which price it is unprofitable to operate and there are people who may not be able to afford such minima. |
| Date | 18:42:07, August 19, 2005 CET | From | Corporate Raider Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | SDP, Read the bill. Properties already utilized as public housing will remain so. Also, you minima will drop as the housing market swells due to fewer people getting free housing. |
| Date | 23:40:00, August 19, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Fair Housing Act |
| Message | National schemes, yes, but not locally owned housing. <|Ok, I assumed that, as in RL, the housing would be regionally managed, but fair enough|> The minima to which I referred are minima due to absolute costs unaffected by demand. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 71 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 81 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 68 |
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