Home Ownership

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by atomicpaul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

and deregulation ain't gonna help.

Many local regulations are tantamount to bribes to the planners office!

In WA they also make you pay for gopher impact studies and mitigation.

Home rule is a pox on these lands.

I hope this has been helpful.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Knuckle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Housing Market issue is a combination of:

1.) Way less buying power compared to prior generations.
a.) Inflation
b.) Wages not matching inflation.

2.) Rise of homes to rent.
a.) Companies/Frat bros buying houses as investments to rent.
b.) Air BNB from middle class taking homes off the market.

Other factors of course, now interest is higher than 4 years ago.

Never just one thing, but if we want to get political, we could talk about making rent-control a nationwide mandate. There is one class of humans I don't care to see hurt by financial losses, and that is landlords. I am my own homeowner and using other peoples need for shelter as a means to profit has been a source of untold misery in this world. Apartments in my city have increased like 40% in 4 years? It's insane. Also, if you own more than one home, you should pick up....90% of property tax in your state. Homesteaders should cover 10%. Have a nice day.

Fairness doesn't come into it. Less housing will be built if you introduce price controls.

[atomicpaul]

if that was an admission that you aren't on board with dumbass, short-sighted libertarian housing policy, heard.

i got family in japan. it's even stupider there. they have now what the rest of us will have in ten years: 50% abandoned structures.

homeless problems really chap my ass when i see all these abandoned strip malls doing absolutely nothing around my area, and yes, there's entire camps within less than a mile from where i live, as we're near big-network train tracks in the exurbs. where are these deregulation folks, then? republican policy seems incomplete in the actual counties it controls.

admittedly, no, the neoliberal right-wing democrats don't have a plan for this sorta crap, either. i can see why the orange man is appealing if you're a low-information consumer. our closest cook-out has been closed for months, you have to go one entire mile to get a burger for three bucks

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by atomicpaul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

homeless problems really chap my ass

a large number of them are military veterans

fuck them troops

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by atomicpaul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the structural flaw is capitalism,

No the structural flaw is anarchy, the housing market is not regulated properly like a capitalist market is.

tariffs??? capitalism requires regulation.

Regulating home ownership would not hurt our industry one bit, and that's all that matters in a country.

Stop blaming the wrong thing. The alternative to capitalism is 50,000 unit cement apartment blocks.

Or RPGs at eachother's temples.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Free houses are great but it’s a small % of the homeless who have the capacity to make a free house work

Section 8/HUD housing will kick you out if they find out you are doing hard drugs in there. Problem is they almost never find out

You would need to screen for particular homeless to give the house to, starting from the top working down for ones without a crippling substance abuse problem, without crippling mental illness, and ideally without a cripplingly low IQ, which a lot have. I mean, you could give the houses to anyone of course, but if the goal is for the house to be a road to self-sufficiency, those at the top of that hierarchy I described are the most likely to have that happen for them. The rest are likely to either leave the house or destroy it

So do we do the kinda mean thing and help out starting at the top of the bottom of the barrel first, or do we waste houses? (Making them super hard to destroy could help but the lowest functioning homeless are likely to leave them eventually anyway)

[shovelquest]

Homeless people are not struggling

that narrative is such a genx melinial day dream.

They're the ultimate libertarians and proud of it.

[maddysinko]

Yeah, the housing market has gotten bizarre, especially if you're looking for something decent that's not a luxury build or tucked far outside of town. I've been trying to move closer to work, but the only things I can even come close to affording are an hour out with no real neighborhood structure. Most newer builds are too big, too flashy, and definitely not priced for a single person or even young couples just starting out. It's frustrating when even basic starter homes now seem to require two solid incomes and low debt.

When my cousin relocated recently, she didn't even attempt to buy—just used movers and committed to renting for now until things cool off. She used Three Movers for her long-distance move and said the process was surprisingly smooth and quick, which helped ease the stress a bit.

[Skyking]

Originally Posted by maddysinko [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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should prolly vibe code the em dash out of your bot spam

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Does it count as touching if it steps on my face