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I'll repost a comment I made before again here:
context: https://lemmy.ca/comment/4927203
Not everyone wants to own and not everyone that doesn't want to own wants to rent an apartment and it's not the government's place to own single family houses for rent (all provincial governments should have a non profit crown corporation owning all rental properties over a certain number of doors though).
Edit: Downvote all you want, I know tons of people that don't want to have to deal with the maintenance responsibilities that come with a house, they still have a family and don't want to live in an apartment, would you rather force them to own the place they live in?
There are two solutions.
Both provide people the ability to have homes without direct ownership nor dealing with the hassle of ownership nor the uncertainty of renting.
It has the benefits of owning. Control over rent prices, ability of modifying living space (including putting up pictures) and benefits of renting (allowing easy relocation, delegate maintenance responsibility).
Housing cooperatives and CLTs have the benefits of both without the drawbacks of either. It also treats housing as a human right as opposed to an "investment".
There are housing cooperatives for students, the most temporary population and the least wanting to maintain a property.
https://www.nasco.coop/
You can be a part of this movement too by donating or investing in such projects. I urge you to do so.
They work, and work well. There just needs be mass injection of funds into them.