-CrestiaBell t1_j4u1uhc wrote on January 18, 2023 at 6:32 AM

Reply to comment by Mister_Lich in Dutch Constitution to be amended to ban discrimination based on sexuality or disability by DutchBlob

There's not really a scarcity of houses in America so much as there is an artificial scarcity created by companies that exist solely to buy up houses en masse and hike up their prices.

Mister_Lich t1_j4vn8yh wrote on January 18, 2023 at 4:08 PM

This is literally just not true. Most houses are not corporate owned. Not even close. It's a few more percent than it was a few years ago.

You know what can cause this to drop? Building so much housing that you crash the market. Nobody wants to build tons of housing because all the homeowners vote against it because it tanks their equity values. You think that corporations are the big baddy, they aren't, it's HOA's and the fucks in the suburbs and shit that vote against every possible expansion or densification of anything because their primary concern is their equity, not your chances of homeownership. Vote YIMBY's into your local government. That is your only savior.