In Canada, we have many essential services socialized. For example, you can get free health care if you need it, roads and infrastructure are designed for public use, and welfare and employment insurance systems provide the unemployed with income.
Even though, many essential human needs have been met, there are still several human needs that people are required to fend for themselves. These include the most basic of needs; food, water, and shelter. Shelter being one of the most necessary of the minimum requirements of life; however, how would a socialized system of housing work?
The first thing that needs to be discussed is how this social service would be paid for, and the obvious answer is taxation on an increasing scale depending on ones annual income. Low income families would generally pay less while high income families would have to pay more. Due to the limited number of full-time permanent employees in Canada, many people would be required to pay for more than their own property. This would demoralize the need for hard work in a way since you would receive a hand out. To avoid this, one may only provide public housing if they are gain fully employed.
What would social housing look like? Social housing would provide the bare minimum to each person who is part of the system. This means a location for one person would have enough room for the necessities. This means, that they may only have a few hundred square foot space.
Also, depending on the family size the property will be bigger to accommodate. Ie. 4 people living together will get a location that is 4 times larger than one person living alone.
Clearly, not everyone wants to live in socialized housing in Canada. Some people earn much more than the average household, and in turn, they would want a much bigger and more extravagant house. With a two tier housing system, this would allow for the well off individuals the ability to purchase more expensive dwellings; therefore, the option would still be able to accommodate those who want something more expensive.
The unfortunate fact of socialized housing is that many would abuse this system. Too many would work a lot less if things were given to them. For the time being, our society has not evolved into a strong sense of community yet, and until we do so, we will continue to have issues with social services.
What do you think of socialized home ownership? Would you prefer it? What else could be socialized?
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