I tell this to everyone I fucking know. Literally so many people's American dream is to find a way to extract wealth from the classes lower than them. Not even an ounce of care for the extractive exploitative nature of their investment, they just know that's how it's done
And this is why the reactionaries of the world flock to America. It's like chud Israel.
Jews are the insidious banking class who rob the righteous and noble landed gentry of the rents that are their birthright.
You must rally to my banner and purge this land of the people to whom I owe money, or the evil foreigners will become your landlords instead of me.
Look man they literally put a pyramid God in their money; you can't be more literal.
"JusT build mOre HOUsiNg. It doesn't matter what price it is because it will definitely drive the price of existing housing down."
JusT build mOre HOUsiNg
I mean, tbh, you're gonna have to do that one way or the other. Much like how 70's grandma's apartment building had to be bought out & bulldozed to make way for The Monstrosity, so too will a lot of existing infrastructure & housing stock have to be basically scrapped, because it literally won't be/can't be useable under a more rationally developed urban development framework.
Universal Car Ownership & Functional Public Transport are basically two mutually-exclusive development paths when it comes to building a country's infrastructural base, as far as I can tell; and you can't really "repurpose" anything when moving from one to the other.
I often dream of flattening entire cities with a giant robot bulldozer then rebuilding them with a giant robot building robot.
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When the bourgeois buy it all up because it's a stable investment.
had an ad pop up on instagram advertising a mastercourse on how to use section 8 housing grants to become a slumlord
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it hasn't "shifted"
these are two different groups of people, for the most part, and the second one just didn't exist for a long time
bad take tbh a movement that can encompass different groups who all have similar wants is a sign of a strong movement.
a fictionalised example of strong movement building would be if catholics, hells angels and hippies all campaigned together against condoms
The take is fine. Whatever her actual meaning whats happening is that the YIMBY voices, who are backed by wealthy lobbying interests, are successfully drowning out actually meaningful activism. Which is completely to be expected.
yeah there's something iffy here, does "future access to investment properties" means buying a single house? can tech bros even afford multiple houses? am i on the second camp if i feel i won't be able to afford a house in the future with a tech salary? i feel like i'm missing something crucial though
For an effective movement we should try and solve the problem of young professionals not being able to own houses and also leverage the support from young professionals to help solve the housing problems of the homeless and other renters
Yeah I bet that's a lot of it
Pre-pandemic only 5 of the engineers I worked with (~10%) owned their homes, all of them were at least mid-30s, were managers, had a partner that also worked in tech or had another comparable high-paying job, and only owned an apartment unit or townhouse unless they lived 1hr+ away commute-distance
A house that doesn't need any work in Kansas, even in the middle of nowhere, is still 2x to 3x that.
Ive got a boomer aunt who lives in a Kansas town with a couple hundred people in it tops, half an hour from anything that technically qualifies as a city - she was telling me about a little house (I mean little, well under 1000sqft) that got sold for like 75k recently, apparently commercial landlords are buying shit up there too
Yeah I didn't mean cosmetic stuff I meant things like new foundation, new roof, new appliances, new bathroom, new septic, new electrical, water damage, etc
Anything as low as 25k is gonna have a lot of big, expensive repair work needed
