 ast week Lord British unveiled his new
housing proposal for our realm. Ever since then, there has been a great deal of contraversy
over the matter. A great many new laws will be enacted to reduce the number of houses that
clutter our wilderness and to attempt to restore the ecology of the plains of Sonoma.
In addition, Lord British has taken a stand which shall prevent the building of all
houses in the Lost Lands until the new laws take affect.
. . . . . . One major issue of trouble was caused by Lord British's idea of a house tax that would have to be paid to mantain a house. This tax could be paid in logs, ingots, money or a combination. Many people have mixed opposition on this matter. One side claims that the tax will aid the mining and lumberjacking professions and give them a much needed boost. One the other side of the matter, many claim that a housing tax would be far to detrimental to Sosaria in the fact that it will deter from the amount of time people can spend to help educate our children, fight monsters in the country side, conducting business, and fighting murderers. They fear a tax is unjust because there had not been one before and having one imposed would go against their rights as free citizens. In addition, a tax is clearly unlawful considering that the people shall recieve no benefit from such a tax, save the fact that Lord British shall repair their houses, which they already recieve now. . . . . . . Another controversial topic is the idea of a housing limit. It is clear that something must be done to ebbe the uncontrolled growth of houses. Lord British's solution to this is to impose a limit of one house per person. Proponents of this state that a housing limit is necesary to prevent huge estates from forming including an enormous amount of houses. In addition, they say that limit will allow everyone a fair chance to place a house where they want it. Opponents of the limit feel it infringes on their rights to impose a limit. They argue that if they can afford a house they should be able to place it. . . . . . . In addition, to a housing limit they will be imposing a policy of public and private buildings. Public building would be useable for placing vendors and would be subsidized by Lord British lowering the tax in them; however, the houses would be unlocked at all times making them unusable for storage. There is an inherent illogic in this idea because by having a limit of one house per person noone shall place a shop instead of a personal house. In addition, since vendors will only be able to be placed in public building, the number of buildings shall increase to accomadate public and private buildings, as opposed to all private buildings before. . . . . . . Lord British has quite a few more Acts which will be passed soon. One of which is the idea of registering ownership with authorities, to allow them to change locks. In addition, carpenters shall be sent to houses to nail down items in the house as well as providing secure chests. A final act in the new housing policy is a house spacing requirement. . . . . . . As the debate rages on, it shall be interesting to see how things turn out and what modifications are made to the law. One thing is for sure though, many citizens will be unhappy no matter what happens. |
