• Riskable@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    expensive rents and unaffordable house prices.

    Fix this, and I bet a lot of the other issues will improve considerably.

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPM
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, this also feels to me like the main solvable thing: build lots of housing, preferably social, preferably where young people want to live.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Exactly. There is too much focus on getting enough to survive that no one can live. And any place that people can meet now costs money. Money that goes to everything else. No one can afford to be friendly.