What are some things we can give to poor people instead of money?

in economics •  11 months ago  (edited)

This is in now way meant to be comprehensive list but only the top 15 that come to mind first.

  1. Public land, via land banking, to build their own housing on
  2. Reliable public transit to offset the costs of car note, insurance, refueling, maintenance and repairs.
  3. Back to the first item variance to or complete abolition of single family zoning, minimum floor space requirements, and minimum lot sizes for multi-family housing. You’d need to do this first to even make reliable public transportation physically feasible.
  4. Back to the second item the abolition of minimum off street parking requirements.
  5. Third item in wealthier school districts with higher per pupil expenditures and lower student to teacher ratios (i.e. income desegregation).
  6. The first and third items in land trusts, housing cooperatives or limited equity condominiums to keep such housing affordable in perpetuity while also encouraging low time preference ownership behavior instead of high time preference renter behavior that leads to criminality and neglect.
  7. A confiscatory capital gains tax on the site value of realty (to suppress real estate speculation elsewhere).
  8. An end to eminent domain seizures at the behest of private developers for other private parties i.e. overturning Kelo v. City of New London and even Berman v. Parker bringing an end to the so called “revitalization” and “renewal” schemes that rely on this tool.
  9. Abolition of occupational licensing for professions that can be competently done even without a high school diploma.
  10. Publicly funded emergency medical care and catastrophic healthcare
  11. Paid Sick Leave
  12. In keeping with Item 10, exercising march in rights, restoring the reasonable pricing clause, or allowing generic competition wherever and whenever Pharma decides to price gouge for products developed with NIH funded research.
  13. In keeping with Item 11, the abolition of evergreening and a higher tax on royalty income
  14. Allow the lower income strata, and I’d argue all income strata, to keep 100% of their wages and salaries.
  15. Price controls on college tuition and maximum income caps for administrators, like any other monopolist and cartel that doesn’t face market pressures to keep prices reasonable.
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