Kind of feels like these people have declared war on me but if I try and fight back, I'd be the bad guy.
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We need to expand community land trusts to ensure people have housing. Just going to copy and paste a previous comment since I was just talking about them in a thread about HOAs.
I live in a townhouse that is one of 30 on our lot. All of the houses are a part of a land trust program that owners have to qualify in order to buy, a minimum income set to ensure applicants can pay a mortgage and a maximum set by the average income of the city. The houses are sold at cost and buyers agree to sell at that cost, plus a small percentage of equity gain per year lived in the house. Property taxes are fixed to this valuation agreement so nobody in the program is forced out of their home from real estate bubbles.
If the program was expanded the bar to entry could be lifted. I had to hold off on a raise that I got while we were in the middle of the buying process to make sure I didn't go over the cap, which is hilarious (sad) since we still struggle with my current income. Friends of ours missed out and moved out of state because they were a few paltry thousand over the cap, the work in restaurants and had they not declared their tips they would have had a house in the city they love.
A great start would be seizing these vulture's properties that are compounding the problem.
It sucks that this is how you have to approach it to have affordable housing.
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Home ownership will be a thing of the past. Eventually corporations will own all the single family homes within two hundred miles of any urban center.
Do you guys think they'll start offering housing as job incentives soon? Work for us and you may have a house. Or tying housing to your job like they do with health insurance?
I can imagine it now.
Alexa's installed throughout the house that have alarms to remind you to attend work.
An expensive subscription service for toilet use forcing the tenants to piss in bottles.
Scheduled TV time forced to only consume Amazon prime shows or films
Basically, this:
remember to drink your verification can, announced by AI celebrity voice from your house speakers
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This is the bad ending, Humpty Dumpty didn't fall off the wall and die.
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We're literally going back into a feuldal system with lords and serfs.
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It's because he doesn't have enough money.
Oh boy…
Yes please keep making really big bets on a bubbled market. Everyone ready for housing market crash 2 electric boogaloo?
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Company towns are about to return with a vengeance. Looking forward to our feudal amazonpunk future.
He’s a max level twink just ganking lowbies at this point because he can. They are no threat to him and he’s doing it because he has zero empathy and too much free time.
P2W is bad, always