believe it or not the most i have been yelled at online this past week is not on here but on tiktok for saying the true statement that the “hedge funds investing in housing” problem is downstream of the “chronic housing shortage problem.”
for this i was denounced as a liar and a shill.
for this i was denounced as a liar and a shill.
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My theory is this town square BS just mixes people who probably would be better off on interacting on sites, like message boards, that are focused on particular interests.
Not that those spaces are anger-free, but, those are moderated and have rules.
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Somehow these free for all commenting sites, including comments sections of publications, attract all kinds to the site's detriment.
There seem to be many folks who want to argue and take to using said sites like sharks to chum
It is annoying. Makes me generally tweet/whatever less, really.
But we've seen lots of cases where this isn't true. And when we demand low income housing developers and the most woke celebs fight against it.
No landlord says “hey theyre building a building across the street guess i’d better lower your rent”
Merely observing that the US housing market is incredibly warped isn't itself much of an ideological claim. Or at least one would think, lol
Also, there isn’t plenty of housing for most middle/upper people.
i guess
Bc in my part of Jersey so many homeowners seem to believe that renters of any stripe are parasites on the municipal landscape
That sucks
Basically it happens because affordable houses aren't built, right?
I wish more people understood the root problem better, and it sounds like most of the angry people are the ones that don’t quite grasp the problem at all.
Yes, more housing would help our housing issue.
Forty years of Republican education cuts may be a blow America just can’t recover from.
Even if the source of the housing crisis is hedge funds and not a shortage, the solution is the same: build tons of new housing! That would dilute their investments!
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/
In most cases, we've not just allowed large accumulations of capital to do socially damaging things, we have incentivized it.
There is no real freedom, no justice, no life or liberty or pursuit of happiness when money has other ideas.
Close that masterpiece out on the existential dread that defines being American, if you’re not a ruthless $$ person.)
40 before that.
Would it be helpful to the average person trying to rent an apartment or buy a house to have a bunch of speculators enter the market? Absolutely not!
(A comic book is not a house and I support public housing or whatever works to fix this mess we're in )
Are the YIMBY and “corporate greed is killing housing” stances mutually exclusive?
We didn't hear about the housing shortage until the arrival of Airbnb (+ clones) and the emergence of rampant speculation. Here, I just found 2000 homes in Seattle.
It’s humbling but I try to assume it’s a good place to learn and grow
https://www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/policy-proposal/single-family-rentals-trends-and-policy-recommendations/
You just always speak such sense.
Also, in other videos where people are referencing your debunks (but aren’t stitched) it has always been in the most glowing terms…at least…in what I’ve encountered.
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