• luckyhunter@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not the money, it’s the cost of labor and materials driving up costs. I paid under 200k for my house just 6 years ago. You can’t even buy the raw materials to build a similar sized house for that.

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              1 year ago

              The article is about affordable housing, not subsidized housing. If it costs 300K to build a house these days the builder is going to try to sell it for more than that.

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                Then government should be the builder.

                Not everything needs to whored out to the private sector.

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                  1 year ago

                  Because government run projects are well known for being cost effective and cheaper than private sector?

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                    Actually, yes. They can be.

                    Much of the overrun that you hear of in, eg, the US and Canada is because of cost-plus contracts negotiated with the private sector. It’s been a very, very long since we’ve seen purely public offerings.

                    I’d also challenge someone who says “the private sector is more effective”. I get the impression they’ve never worked at private company larger than a neighbourhood coffee shop. I’ve worked a F50 companies; trust me, they can piss money away and blow through deadlines like it’s nobody’s business. Try to do an ERP conversion some day.