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Bill: Housing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democrat 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: June 3319
Description[?]:
| Families should be given the opportunity to purchase their own homes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state owns and maintains all housing.
Current: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:00:38, June 13, 2012 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Housing Act |
| Message | The right to be secure in shelter is a human right. We can't support this. This will only lead to increased inequality. We support moderate deregulation in other, less-critical, areas, but the end result of this proposal is only an increase in inequality. |
| Date | 02:35:37, June 14, 2012 CET | From | Social Democrat Party | To | Debating the Housing Act |
| Message | We do not intend to make anybody homeless, just to give hard-working families an opportunity to purchase their own homes. |
| Date | 10:11:51, June 14, 2012 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Housing Act |
| Message | Land should not belong to anyone. It should be held in a trust for the common good. Also, why would someone desire to spend money on a home if the government will give them a home to use indefinitely for free? (Not only that, but also allow them to refuse to give in to eminent domain requests.) (OOC: Ah.... crazy conflicting laws, like our current laws banning recreational drugs, and requiring all recreational drugs to be sold through government stores.) ;) |
| Date | 20:59:12, June 14, 2012 CET | From | People's Socialist Labour Party | To | Debating the Housing Act |
| Message | OOC: I kind of figured one would take precedence - if recreational drugs aren't legal then obviously they can't be sold. Does make for contradictory laws though. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 263 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 291 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 196 |
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