(water is wet and fire is hot).

  • @just_another_person
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    256 months ago

    People want housing to be affordable, and not a profit scheme run by hedge funds to squeeze the last bit of dignity out of society by raising rents and purchase prices based on bullshit numbers they’ve made up with zero factual basis for cost as justification.

    Pretty much nowhere in the US can you afford to be in an actual house as a renter even without making double minimum wage. 78% of the US is living paycheck to paycheck, so how in the hell are they going to afford deposits + rent, insurance, moving costs…etc. Get informed.

    • @Today
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      -86 months ago

      Profit scheme run by hedge funds? I’m not sure what that has to do with landlords.

      If someone owns a home that they aren’t currently living in, what do you propose they do with it? They should take a loss and let you live there cheaply because your job doesn’t pay enough? I don’t remember any time when minimum wage (or even twice that) was enough to buy a home.