• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    A) This is a hoax account

    B) You can still get cheaper housing if you don’t live in the whitest, red-lined-ass, suburban enclaves in your state

    C) Even then, it doesn’t matter, because landlords primarily benefit from very low borrowing costs rather than low housing costs. A $300k house was still functionally unaffordable to anyone earning $45k/year, unless your credit score got you one of those sweet sub-3% ZIRP era loans. Renting was effectively paying a vig to a guy with a better interest rate than you.

    D) ZIRP also flooded the market with the excess cash that made $300k basic bitch housing possible. And then turned those $300k homes into $600k homes 15 years later.

    E) Build Public Housing

    F) And municipal mass transit, so you don’t have to sit in traffic for a hour every day