What is renting?

I'm paying 3x my states monthly minimum wage for hourly workers to own in a fairly modest 1100 sqft house in a semi walkable area in a major city.

Before here I used to pay my states monthly minimum wage for hourly workers to live in a fucking slum just outside the city. House was by an interstate so I got soot on anything I left outside, all the houses in the neighborhood were water damaged and molded to hell, the roads were so cracked it was fucking up cars, and everyone who lived there seemed miserable.

It's grind or die, I got so fucking sick living in alleged affordable housing. Nerve damage and all kinds of weird chronic health problems from living in such a toxic death trap for years. They don't call it the Dirty South for nothing, this place is completely fucked.

In two years I've paid $104,000 to my mortgage!

...why is it only $17,000 lower...

Minimum wage isn't enough to pay for a roof over your head... unless you mean the roof of a car...

That last sentence in particular

There was a problem with using housing as an investment vehicle, yes, though the state took action against that, destroying the "market" for balooning housing prices.

Shared bathrooms, what a concept.

China is building a working class-centered society. Class isn't really determined by wealth, but by relation to production and distribution, and this is why China's approach has consistently resulted in continuous improvements!

You’re going through the back catalog just to make racist boomer comments in week-old posts?

it's a lifetime lease and prevents the accumulation of generational wealth in real estate. not flawless but generally still miles better than what westerners have. (nothing)

And what's the problem with that?

This may be a hot take but I think there should not be forever private ancestral lands.

The city/state should periodically get the land back and resell it to cover the ever changing maintenance costs (heck you are paying this with the increasing property tax)

The city/state should have a relatively predictable timeline of when they can reliably gain control of a land back so they can plan development around it (particularly infrastructure) and not deal with someone who know they can just squat on such land to sell for an inflated price.

Having an "expiration date" on the land is a surefire way to stop ever increasing property prices, getting a home with a shorter remaining lease period might be preferable for some who is not going to stay there permanently but long enough to want to own a home and having these options be a cheaper option is a very good thing. Such expiration date also means it is easier to modernize each property as needed, this will not be the death of historic buildings because the city/state still can make exceptions for them if needed.

Also how many of the US-ians are getting a house as their inheritance anyways? Oftentimes when a generation passes away post retirement, their house gets sold to some investment firm and becomes a rental.

Yeah the us would never force anyone off of land.

What is owning the land anyways?

How long is the lease for?

Good.

The land under your house is owned by the Indigenous people you stole it from. So while you may “own” the structure, when Indigenous law is restored after the illegitimate occupation falls, you will be told to GTFO.

Don't use facts. It upsets the edgelords

Not that it is true that they are just tiny boxes... But even if it were true. That's the difference between China and the US isn't it?

One provides at least a "box" for everyone.

One provides a big home with a yard with a white picket fence around it for some, but leaves others living in the streets.

Do you really prefer the last one? So many people in the US would be happy with a box at this point.

The freezing homeless people you pass every day in glorious freedomland would love one of those.

.world users acting like .world users

lmfao a western-backed "freedom index" is not a substitution for media literacy, nor does it excuse you from providing literally any material evidence to support your argument.

Also, do you want to explain why Israel is ranked at 112; 50 places above Venezuela and Palestine; and why Saudi fuckin Arabia is right there between VZ and PA? Seems to me like this "freedom index" doesn't correlate very well with democracy or human rights, much less evidence-based journalism or state transparency.

china, being a dictatorship of the proletariat and having an actually-working participatory democratic process, has its press in the hands of the people. western countries, being dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, have their press in the hands of a few billionaires, and somehow according to shitlibs that makes it "free and fair" lmfao

Ah, the same Reporters Without Borders gaslighting the world about journalist deaths in Gaza?

You know how it's frustrating when far right reactionaries roll up in lib spaces on reddit spewing propaganda the sources of which they haven't investigated critically? That's you. You're doing that here. Please stop.

Amazing, capitalist press saying capitalist press is limited in China and that's "scary."

Neither has ghost cities, but one has ghost towns in the southwest and the rust belt.

Where source?

Not really, the PRC has incredibly low unhoused rates, and the fact that they build cities anticipating future demand is part of why that happens.