• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    And the reason housing is so expensive is directly due to government intervention in housing.

    Fuck off you conservative dipshit, try your incredibly wrong talking points somewhere people aren’t gonna see right through it

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      7 months ago

      While it is certainly not the only reason, government intervention via zoning laws is definitely a factor in the house crisis. If mixed use zoning was more universally a thing, then that would be the government not intervening in the housing market.

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        7 months ago

        It’s even more so due to the ultra-low interest rates that were the “temporary” “solution” to the post 2008 crash recession (only they weren’t all that temporary and didn’t really solve the problem, more pushed it along).

        There is a lot of info out there about how such monetary policy pushed money up the yield-scale out of Treasuries and Bonds and into things like Stocks and Realestate.

        Another point is the wealth concentration we’re seeing: as a bigger and bigger fraction of GDP ends up in the hands of the already very wealthy the fraction of GDP that’s seeking investment opportunities (rather than being spent: poorer people spend all or most of their income, whilst rich people spend but a tiny fraction and the rest they invest) exploded and all that has to go somewhere and Realestate is perceived as safe (especially if governments will do all they can to not let prices fall) and has a lot more yield than treasuries.

        This shit goes all the way back to Obama, and was just as much pushed by Republicans as by Democracts.

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          7 months ago

          Oh please. None of that even PALES in comparison to the outright supply crunch being caused by housing investors. It doesn’t even compare to the damage being done by the rampant construction of expensive luxury/multifamily homes.

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            7 months ago

            It explains why there are so many house investors now when there were way less about a decade or so ago.

            It also explains the record-setting stockmarket valuations even though most people feel things have gone backwards.

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      7 months ago

      Yup! Housing investors >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> zoning laws or all the other narratives about government interference.