I can't quite grok why KO wouldn't already have this though. KO's reason to exist is to provide accommodation to those who can't otherwise afford it. That they have unaffordable rent levels is weird given its probably mostly just consuming the tenants' accommodation supplement anyway. There's a wasteful overhead there.

The risk is that the cheaper accommodation will probably end up as slums from NIMBY's and aggressive cost cutting.

[–] Dave 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, and maybe we should take a moment to consider why the KO housing exists. If it's to put people in housing when they otherwise would have had none, why are we kicking them out?

If they wanted to have the experience of living somewhere they couldn't afford and getting kicked out for not paying the rent, they could have just gone for a rental with a private landlord.

[–] deadbeef79000 3 points 1 week ago

It's not like shelter is one of the basic human rights we all agree on or anything.

;-)

[–] BalpeenHammer -1 points 1 week ago

Slums or not I think it would be more efficient and effective to build multiple residency apartment towers. Land is expensive and it takes too long and costs too much to build thousands of individual houses.