Аннотация: Illiterate, sub-criminal and criminal specialists in economy and a "Cheap (Affordable) Housing". A sketch on the political economy of construction.
Illiterate, sub-criminal and criminal specialists in economy and a 'Cheap (Affordable) Housing'. A sketch on the political economy of construction.
Increasingly, calls are heard to provide the population with cheap (affordable) housing.
Let us imagine that these calls are motivated by a sincere concern for the people, and not by concern for those narrow groups that hold monopoly positions in the market for construction and housing sales.
So there is a caring person (or a group of caring people).
What is this idea: "cheap (affordable) housing"?
By logical reasoning, we come up to the conclusion that prices for housing, like any other goods, are compiled - (1) based on the structure of the cost, (2) based on the dynamics of supply and demand... But these prices, which are formed more or less objectively, do not suit good people who care about the people.
What is needed is not market prices, but lower prices - those prices that will make it possible to call housing cheap (affordable).
Fine! As a slogan this looks good, attractive. But as an economic idea this looks illiterate [unqualified].
If some prices are an artificially lowered ones, then, consequently, the costs of this forced price reduction fall on someone.
Who should these costs fall on?
Caring people do not give an answer to this question, which allows us to classify them as illiterate [unqualified] people in the economy.
But besides sincere, ardent, caring people, there are also selfish, malicious people
Two groups can be distinguished here.
The first group is sub-criminals who 'provide' the 'cheapness' of housing.
These figures are maneuvering not far from "criminal space", but strive to remain within the very complex norms of urban planning, architectural and other similar legislation.
How did they manage to take away significant areas from the Botanical Garden in Rostov-on-Don? You cannot answer in two words. But it can be assumed that the owner of the Botanical Garden (and who is the owner - a university, an independent university subdivision, the subject of federation , the Ministry of Education, the Russian Federation? ...) did not fulfill some formalities ... What formalities? One can only guess about this, but we can assume that some questions were related to zoning, to land surveying, to registration of rights ... Of course, it is not at all necessary that all these shortcomings made it possible to give away part of the Botanical Garden for individual development (construction). But potential shortcomings in the registration of rights and the complexity of urban planning, architectural and other legislation allowed the relevant persons to stop at the border, beyond which a criminal and a criminal procedure legislation operates.
This also includes options when the "cheapness" of housing is provided by the broadest masses of the population. Developers are given "cheap" plots - from the city forests, groves, parks, out of wide green spacious shady yards (with a fresh air).
Sub-criminal actors present themselves as persons (honest, conscientious, law-abiding ...), forced to act in conditions of short-sighted, over-complicated, contradictory legislation. If the groaning population of megalopolises (in general, the population, the people) does not like the results of the activities of sub-criminal actors, then claims should be addressed, directed not to them, but to the legislation. It, the legislation, either in an obvious way allows actions that are unpleasant for the people, or it, the legislation, allows you to understand yourself, interpret yourself, use yourself in a way, convenient for sub-criminal actors. (An imperfect legislation is to blame).
Developers and home buyers may be in plus, while cities and huge populations of megacities are in minus. And cunning politicians wave about the digits of the constructed and purchased housing and insist on their merits to society.
The second group is criminal economic figures in the construction field. More and more often there are situations of suspicious fires, during which suspicious persons are recorded and detained.
Simple common sense requires the development of a mechanism that would make it disadvantageous for criminals to organize fires.
However, theses about intentional fires are disappearing somewhere, the fate of the detained (potential arsonists) remains unknown to the general public. Sometimes it even seems that local authorities, having succumbed to the indignation of local residents, are directly or indirectly protesting against the organization of fires, but feel themselves under pressure ...
Further - after the fires - the corresponding areas are filling in with construction, new properties (which are then sold).
Real estate developers and buyers may benefit. At whose expense is the benefit? At the expense of those whose real estate was burned. All the possible "law" fleas ought to be catched, in order to leave them with a damages, with a losses. The more the losses of those who suffered from the fires, the more - objectively - the profit of developers and new buyers.
If you do not look onto the criminal side, so a process well thought out and organized. On an all-national scale ...
Doubtful slogans of providing the population with cheap (affordable) housing are impossible without the most serious political support.
In addition to financial benefits, there are also political benefits behind these slogans - by manipulating information, organizers and performers present themselves as effective political and economic figures.
By their economic essence, housing, real estate are the same goods as everyone else.
Why not set the goal of providing the Russial population with cheap goods - not only housing, but also all other goods - without exception? If this is possible for such a group of goods as "housing", "real estate", then, consequently, it is achievable for all other goods.
So, a new economic goal - all goods (without exception) will cost 1 (one) kopeck.
It will be wonderful!
January 21, 2021 16:00
Translation from Russian into English: January 21, 2021 21:02.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Безграмотные, суб-криминальные и криминальные экономические деятели и 'дешёвое (доступное) жилье'. Очерк политической экономии строительства'.