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  • This house prefers a world where adult children take in their elderly parents rather than support them to live separately.

    WSDC Thailand 2019 · Open Octos · 2019-07-28

  • This house believes that the state should seize all vacant housing (vacant housing are homes that have not been lived in for 12 months).

    University of Waterloo High Schools Tournament Fall 2019 · 3 · 2019-07-27

  • This house would promote the construction of commuter towns close to highly populated areas instead of continuing to build within them.

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    The commuter cities are those that are built near large cities and are intended for people to live and sleep in them while industrial and economic activities are carried out mainly in the large city that is nearby.

    IV Torneo Rosarista de Debate 2019 · 4 · 2019-03-22

  • In cities and areas with rapidly increasing housing costs, this house would tax new residents and use the revenue to subsidize housing costs for citizens already residing in the area

    Budapest Open 2019 · Open Semis · 2019-03-16

  • This house would actively relocate unemployed people living in areas of high and structural unemployment

    GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 · 3 · 2019-02-22

  • This house believes that the state should actively relocate individuals away from economically depressed areas rather than develop their local economies.

    Taiwan Debate Open 2019 · 5 · 2019-02-08

  • This house believes that housing activists in San Francisco should advocate for the abolition of zoning regulations rather than increased rent control..

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    A zoning law requires that buildings fulfill a certain purpose (eg, residential zoning laws mandate that no businesses can operate on that lot) or impose aesthetic standards (such as maximum height requirements). These regulations do not directly address health and safety, energy usage, or affordable housing. San Francisco has extensive historic and aesthetic zoning laws.

    Berkeley IV 2019 · 1 · 2019-01-26

  • This house supports governments significantly increasing their use of big data-based predictive models in decision-making to replace human judgements (e.g. criminal justice policy, allocation of healthcare resources, housing development)

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    Recently there has been an increased use of big data and sophisticated algorithms in making various policy judgements. As technology in machine learning and artificial intelligence advances, it is becoming more feasible to apply such methods to more government decision making process.

    Cape Town WUDC 2019 · ESL Final · 2019-01-01

  • This house would allow city and local governments to be held civilly responsible for deaths that can be ascribed to homelessness.

    Oxford IV 2018 · Open Quarters · 2018-11-09

  • This house believes that the South African government should incentivize the movement of people out of townships, rather than focus on policies that try to economically develop townships.

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    Townships are segregated areas that were originally built on the peripheries of South African cities as part of Apartheid. About a third of working age South Africans, and almost half of unemployed South Africans, live in townships. Motion: THB

    Oxford IV 2018 · 5 · 2018-11-09

  • This house would mandate the use of religious establishments as places of refuge for the homeless in order to qualify for tax breaks.

    9th United Asian Debating Championship 2018 · 1 · 2018-05-28

  • This house would make welfare (E.g. Housing grants food stamps unemployment income) conditional on finantial necessity only.

    9th United Asian Debating Championship 2018 · 7 · 2018-05-28