@[email protected] to News • 2 months agoOwning a home has rarely been this much more expensive than rentingfinance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down18cross-posted to: housing_bubble_2
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minus-square@agent_nyctolink13•2 months agoHow have we screwed up as a society, much less species, when shelter is seen as a financial investment rather than what it is, a thing we literally need to survive?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoWell, as houses don’t magically appear out of thin air, I guess it has been like this since we started building permanent shelter.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 months agoUntil relatively recently, it wasn’t that uncommon to just go and find some unused land and build a house on it. No intergenerational wealth required.
How have we screwed up as a society, much less species, when shelter is seen as a financial investment rather than what it is, a thing we literally need to survive?
Well, as houses don’t magically appear out of thin air, I guess it has been like this since we started building permanent shelter.
Until relatively recently, it wasn’t that uncommon to just go and find some unused land and build a house on it. No intergenerational wealth required.
Unused by white people?