• pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
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    3 hours ago

    This isn’t small timers, it’s corporations buying up all of the housing, building only “luxury” apartments and price fixing the fuck out of the rent.

    Then they spout “Trickle Down Housing” where the “luxury” apartments will be available in 30 years.

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      2 hours ago

      The guy said “these houses, …each” so he could own the whole area and jack up the rents, not be a small timer. But yeah, it’s not the person renting out Grandma’s old place to help pay for her nursing home.

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      If they built luxury apartments, rich people would stop renting regular apartments, and the prices would go down