Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-225 days agoInvestors bought 1 out of every 4 affordable homes last quarterarchive.phexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1185arrow-down1external-linkInvestors bought 1 out of every 4 affordable homes last quarterarchive.phEvilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-225 days agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·25 days agoYes, and any time someone proposes putting something other than more single family sprawl in all the homeowners shriek about property value
minus-squareRealtor_Hate_Account [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·25 days agoWild that you can’t even usually own an apartment here in this shithole country. They force most people to be renters.
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·25 days agoand banks and developers know there’s more money in single family sprawl, especially when they can convince local municipalities to cut them sweet tax incentives to build more homes to address the housing affordability crisis…
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·25 days agoAnd the fact that maintaining the suburb after it’s built is unsustainable and requires being subsidized by the city doesn’t matter to them at all
Yes, and any time someone proposes putting something other than more single family sprawl in all the homeowners shriek about property value
Wild that you can’t even usually own an apartment here in this shithole country. They force most people to be renters.
and banks and developers know there’s more money in single family sprawl, especially when they can convince local municipalities to cut them sweet tax incentives to build more homes to address the housing affordability crisis…
And the fact that maintaining the suburb after it’s built is unsustainable and requires being subsidized by the city doesn’t matter to them at all