I'm championing land value taxes, but they won't pass until ownership rates drop another 20-30 percent over the next 20-30 years.
Honestly, the best option for my children (who are still quite young) right now is for me to try to make it worse faster so that we can make such a radical change sooner.
None of those are solutions. They're all Band-Aids. No matter how much you do any of those things you proposed, prices will continue to climb.
Not a single developed country has managed to rein in prices, no matter what tactics they've tried. There are places with all of those suggestions, and still... expensive housing.
Social housing can never be the true solution. The government doesn't have enough money to make it have an impact. Even in cities in Europe that have 30-40% social housing, they are still having housing crisis situations where people can't move, people wait years to affordable units, and private housing is still astronomically expensive.
There is a proper fix, but it destroys almost all of the equity in the existing housing market which means voters will never go for it. Far too many people still own houses and would lose hundreds of thousands or even millions.
So instead we get this pandering shit, and prices will continue to rise for the next few decades.
The best thing an individual can do for the climate crisis is switch their home heating to an electric heat pump powered by renewable energy sources, in combination with better insulation and increasing the density of their housing (apartments require less heat/cooling per person than townhouses, which use less energy per person than detached houses)
Home heating/cooling is the single largest source of emissions for an individual (on average) in developed countries.
It sounds like you already eliminated or significantly reduced the personal car, which is the second highest average individual source.
The emissions from the food you eat is usually the third largest individual source.
100% Veganism globally would be expected to drop global emissions by about 17%, but even switching to just replacing 75% of red meat with other meats would still drop global emissions by 10%, and full vegetarianism (no meat) would drop it by 14%. Veganism is definitely the most reduction, but it's not necessary at all if we just reduce the red meat and fix some of larger heating/cooling and transportation issues.
There are plenty of activities you could be doing that would have a hundreds of times more impact than going Vegan. You're right that your individual consumption actions don't really make a difference in the grand scheme, but that's not true for other actions you could be taking though.
You could work in the field of birth or population control, every baby you prevent being born is likely worth more than your entire lifetime consumption.
You could become a research scientist and work on recycling, pollution reduction, carbon capture, etc.
You could work together with others to purchase and protect large swaths of land or water.
I really don't mind eating Vegetarian meals, but Vegan is too far for all but a handful of meals.
The lack of dairy is my cutoff point.
That being said, I'm not a Vegetarian, I just make vegetarian meals regularly for my family because they enjoy them. I also make a lot of reduced meat meals, where it's a flavour component rather than a significant nutritional component. Like throwing 30g of Bacon in a stew per serving, or halving ground beef with tofu on a rice bowl.
This is a national security matter, those people are likely being used to bait out further interference from 3rd parties and keeping their names hidden forces those third parties to have to worry about if they're being monitored or not.
Dude was completely stable (no fever, vitals stable, etc.) while staying in the emergency room for multiple days from a normal illness. Then he suddenly died overnight after saying he was going to the night before to his daughter.
"Zammit doesn't know what caused her father's death but pointed to the lack of resources at the hospital as significant factors."
That doesn't sound like the hospital failed him, that sounds like he was 88 and people die around that age from natural causes all the time. I'm not saying hospitals can't save people, but people do die eventually, even in hospitals.