• Riverside@reddthat.com
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      If you want historical exmaples of countries solving their housing crises, you could look at state-owned housing such as in the Eastern Block or in Cuba. Recently, Vietnam also took a huge step by putting the army to renovate housing built outside the legal norms.

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      “Besides inventing the term ‘snails without shells,’ I feel like the movement achieved nothing besides depleting me of all my resources,” Lee laments in his 2015 memoir. “But although I complain, I don’t regret it. Real estate prices are still so high that the regular office worker can never imagine owning a home one day. I can only keep telling myself, ‘I must insist on my ideals, and I believe there will eventually be justice.”

      They apparently didn’t.