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The '''housing crisis''' denotes the post-2008 collapse of housing affordability across the Anglosphere and beyond: rents and prices rising far faster than wages, homelessness growing, home ownership delayed or foreclosed for entire generations.
'''The housing crisis''' is a '''land-ownership problem''', and the answer is Henry George's — with Marx's blessing.


== Causes (Marxist reading) ==
== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/d926a308-98c3-41a5-808f-03058f72e996/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream] ==
* '''Financialization''': housing transformed from use-value into the primary global asset class; institutional investors (BlackRock, Invitation Homes, etc.) buying single-family stock; land rent capturing productivity gains.
* '''Supply restriction''': zoning, land-use veto by incumbent homeowners (NIMBYism), and construction-finance cycles constrain building precisely where demand is highest.
* '''Policy''': the 2008 bail-out saved creditors, not homeowners; quantitative easing inflated asset prices directly.


== Debates ==
> "Talking about a land tax like Henry George put it. Marx wasn't against Henry George's idea — Marx even said 'we proposed this in the Communist Manifesto.' He was just against Georgism as a solution to all the world's problems. But the tax on land value, the single tax... this is one of the ways we solve the housing crisis. Well, who's talking about it? Nobody. Where's the opportunity for young men to make a living? It's completely an obscured reality... As a result, society is breaking down. When men can't make enough to bring bread to the table and reality stops making sense and everyone's in debt..."
YIMBY deregulation vs. social housing vs. rent control Infrared's line criticizes all market-centric framings: housing is a human right, the crisis is rentier class rule, and solutions require decommodified mass construction (public developer, Soviet/Chinese-scale housing programs) plus breaking the homeowner-asset-voter coalition.
 
== The Hong Kong counter-example ==
From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/7c7451fb-bb3b-4e4d-9903-ef1f9ee3883d/ MAJOR UPDATES stream]: "Hong Kong is not socialistic the way China is. Hong Kong kept all their bullshit that's why the CIA got the Hong Kong protests to work, because Hong Kong is ruled by landlords... They have a crazy housing crisis. It's terrible."
 
Landlordism as the CIA's social base; mainland socialism as what prevents it. The crisis of legitimacy has a material root: a young male population with no path to household formation ([[Class]], [[World Land Bridge]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[New Deal]]
* [[New Deal]]
* [[Left-Conservatism]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 11:06, 21 August 2026

The housing crisis is a land-ownership problem, and the answer is Henry George's — with Marx's blessing.

> "Talking about a land tax like Henry George put it. Marx wasn't against Henry George's idea — Marx even said 'we proposed this in the Communist Manifesto.' He was just against Georgism as a solution to all the world's problems. But the tax on land value, the single tax... this is one of the ways we solve the housing crisis. Well, who's talking about it? Nobody. Where's the opportunity for young men to make a living? It's completely an obscured reality... As a result, society is breaking down. When men can't make enough to bring bread to the table and reality stops making sense and everyone's in debt..."

The Hong Kong counter-example

From the MAJOR UPDATES stream: "Hong Kong is not socialistic the way China is. Hong Kong kept all their bullshit — that's why the CIA got the Hong Kong protests to work, because Hong Kong is ruled by landlords... They have a crazy housing crisis. It's terrible."

Landlordism as the CIA's social base; mainland socialism as what prevents it. The crisis of legitimacy has a material root: a young male population with no path to household formation (Class, World Land Bridge).

See also

References