Universal Housing

It's a silly idea that's full of holes:

> Free use comes with responsibility: whoever occupies a home must keep it in excellent condition and cover its ongoing maintenance costs. If you can’t afford to properly maintain a particular home, you can’t occupy it

Exactly who decides what constitutes "excellent" condition? Exactly what do you do with people who fail to keep their home in what whatever authority figure considers to be "excellent" condition? If I really want a property somebody else has, can I trash it right before inspection day or pay off the inspector to declare it non-excellent? What do you do with the poor hard-working family who just doesn't have the time or money to keep their place in "excellent" condition? What do you do with the mentally ill person who trashes their place every other week and can't afford to fix it?

> For desirable homes or plots, anyone can apply during a fixed period. If demand exceeds supply, the new resident is chosen by lottery, regardless of income, wealth or status

Lottery? Riiiiight. There's just no chance a simple lottery system will be able to manage the issue of to what extent particular homes or areas are desirable. There's no way a lottery system massive enough to even attempt to address the issue will actually be free of influence by wealth and status.

> The country must always keep at least 10% of homes/plots available, creating real choice and mobility

Exactly how is this going to work in practice? Which "10%" is going to be kept available, and how do we make it available? If we have a desirable city center with under 10% free, do we have to kick some people out to keep that 10%, or do we kick some people out for a while to build denser/taller buildings? Or will our "10%" only be in the undesirable areas?

If I'm a rich person, can I pay off a poor person who happens to have a nicer house to move out to a somewhat less nice house so I can move in? What if I say, I'll pay you to voluntarily move out, or I'll pay someone else to trash the place or pay off the inspector to get you kicked out?

Nobody is smart enough to dream up a new system in 10 minutes that actually covers every possible use-case and situation more fairly than our current capitalistic system that has existed and had all of its rules in practice and iterated over for hundreds of years.

We should make structurally-sound one-thousand floor loosely-tapered pyramid-like megastructure buildings. This shape will make it structurally secure. The lower floors can be free, with the subsidization diminishing as the floors get higher. The higher floors can get progressively expensive. The higher floors literally pay for the lower floors. Sunlight can be transferred to the interior with optical cables, also downward from the very top. A significant portion of the internal volume will be non-residential space, with commercial or public value. The entire outer surface will be a sunlight and air collector that disperses the light and air throughout the interior. The pyramid should connect to itself and other pyramids via horizontal elevators. Vertical elevator requirements won't be brutally high if people can spend much of their time in the structure.

They said "I discussed with my family at the dinner table," but it looks more like "I discussed with my roommates after we got super high."