• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    We need discounted public housing more than ever. Every goddam US city is built on public housing and ending that shit in the 80s is the stupidest goddamn decision with the most obvious fallout

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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      15 days ago

      Yep. Some people see houses as ever increasing appreciating assets and don’t want to take a loss. Hence, maintain high prices and price out buyers

        • curiousaur@reddthat.com
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          14 days ago

          And buy up more houses when they become available. Because too many available houses will drop the price of their current holdings and they can’t allow that, so they are obliged to keep snapping up anything that drops below market, keeping the price up.

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    14 days ago

    I’m starting to understand why people starting burning down all the real estate in the book “Parable of the Sower. “