Tofu_Lewis [he/him]

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Cake day: January 18th, 2021

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  • Just off the top of my head:

    -“House Flipping” culture

    -Short-term rentals and AirBnb

    -“Professional Landlordism”

    -Corporate residential landholding

    -Rabid boomer landowners who lose their minds when any rise in property tax gets mentioned, which results in artificially inflated property valuations

    -No rent control

    Obviously the REAL answer is Capitalism, but the above phenomena create ripple effects across the whole housing market, which is something that the r*dditors always overlook when they quote stats that say “corporate ownership of residential properties only represent a small fraction of the market.” Yeah, maybe they do, but even that small fraction ripples out to housing precarity for millions of people.