- cross-posted to:
- neat@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- neat@lemmy.world
For the past three years, Ireland has invested in 2,000 artists, paying them around $1,500 per month in basic income. Some may argue that it would be a waste of taxpayer money. However, after the three-year trial ended, the endeavor was a net positive for the Irish economy, so the government made the program permanent.
how many housing units does that have
i actually did a calculation on this at one point and posted it somewhere on hexbear, i dont recall the specific numbers. it is actually quite cheap to scale building many housing blocks, and the biggest benefit is you prevent landowners from raising prices. i’ll do a quick search to see if i can find it.
edit: if you compare market prices, and this may be significantly different from 3ish years ago, you can build a single apartment for 20k usd
added the edit
Can I get a source here because 20k for an apartment is the kind of number that I don’t think would cover material cost in a socialist country
i dug through a bunch of sources and came to the number that it was 2500 rubles per 320 sqr feet according to some soviet docs in the 80s, i then compared their material costs to ours
id link more but im on mobile and busy rn
That’s fine, nae worry, but I have to say I don’t think 80s rubles per sq feet transliterate to a 2025 world all that great
if you can try to do some digging on current costs per sqr foot on modern apartments id be curious to see it
In 2021 Vienna spent 614 million euros to build 1950 apartments.
So somewhere around 300k per unit.
interesting, i do think the soviets were building in specifically less dense areas so probably not as comparable.
Karl-Marx-Hof was finished in 1930 with 1325 apartments. The construction costs were 28.6 million schillings which is 127 million € adjusted to inflation. ~95k€ per unit.
I don’t but mostly I don’t think this sort of number exists outside of its context or economic system and regulations