The Quartering Act revisited — this time for the environment

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The latest idea to address housing shortages, inequality, and climate change is to take away the 'excess' housing of folks with a spare bedroom.

Parliament in 1774 retaliated against American colonists with a series of laws we call the Intolerable Acts. The Quartering Act

Professor Ian Gough and research assistant Charlotte Rogers lay out the case for “Solving the housing crisis without building new houses,” at the politics and policy blog of the London School of Economics.What is inefficient today, in their view, is that some people’s homes have unused bedrooms. Seriously.

To address excess housing, they call for a tax surcharge on excess housing. Alongside more normal-sounding ideas — change regulations to make social housing more feasible — the authors also want “greater democratic control over the use of housing space.”

 

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الإمارات العربية المتحدة أحدث الأخبار, الإمارات العربية المتحدة عناوين