Half of U.S. Homeowners and Renters Struggle to Afford Their Housing Payments

[mkd]

You must not have a very good sarcasm detector.    

kettle meet pot. look whose calling the kettle black hahaha

[neurosis]

commies love to conflate their jealousy by throwing the 'greed' stone.

Or, anyone who has enough common sense to see whats happening, why, and the potential future (maybe not to distant) problems it's going to cause.

If you want to argue that government intervention isn't going to solve the problem, then OK. If you understand the potential problems this is going to cause and just don't care because capitalism   

Not every corporation has nefarious intent. It's not commie to call out those that do. 

[neurosis]

look whose calling the kettle black hahaha

Thats racist   

[gcode]

look whose calling the kettle black

but my kettle is cast aluminum ?

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Canada has a ban for 3 years on foreigners buying property for 3 years I think, us should do it too.
Trinidad and tobago has an outright ban on foreigners owning land, the whole country was getting bought up by German investors at one point

[mkd]

If you want to argue that government intervention isn't going to solve the problem, then OK. If you understand the potential problems this is going to cause and just don't care because capitalism   

Not every corporation has nefarious intent. It's not commie to call out those that do.

I'm not saying government intervention isn't going to solve the problem. It's obvious that gov't IS the problem. Commies casting aspersion that require mind reading, is nothing but a side-show diversion to get the population to forget who is 'shaking the jar'.

[neurosis]

Commies casting aspersion that require mind reading, is nothing but a side-show diversion to get the population to forget who is 'shaking the jar'.

Show me on the doll where the commie touched you.

[mkd]

what are the chances that these, ahem, 'articles' just popped up into the ether organically calling out investment firms, compared to the chances they are permanent-state operation mockingbird paid-for propaganda?
I'm old enough to remember the twitter files of direct gov't payments for censorship

[mkd]

Show me on the doll where the commie touched you.

backiright buttocks
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it's where we keep our wallets

[mkd]

That's a very narrow minded opinion, particularly on this subject. I don't mean that to be insulting. 

What they're doing is screwing future generations of potential home owners all in the name of profit. Or as YoDoug puts it, greed. It has nothing to do with jealousy. It's going to have catastrophic effects down the road and they know exactly what they're doing. But hey, Capitalism and if you don't like it, you're a commie. 

if you had the majority of your wealth, like most middle class, in a house in the center of the neighborhood that blackrock allegedly bought-up, would you be:
A: happy for the price appreciation
B: Unbelievably pissed off that prices and rents went up?

the honest answer to this question will determine if this is more an issue of jealousy vs greed.
 convince me i'm wrong.
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[neurosis]

the honest answer to this question will determine if this is more an issue of jealousy vs greed.
 convince me i'm wrong.

No, it wont. 

Anyone would be happy about increased property value but two things can be true at the same time. You can appreciate the rising value of your home, and at the same time, realize that the company buying the homes around yours is going to make home ownership impossible for the next generation of home buyers living in your area.

If I had a choice, I'd rather see those homes purchased by individual home owners. Remember the narrative "you'll own nothing and be happy"?  Well pricing people out of homes and forcing them to rent is a good way to make that happen.

Who really has their hand on your wallet?

[neurosis]

I don't understand why everything is an "it's either this, or it's that" conversation.  No room for those grey areas.  You're either Milton Friedman or Ralph Nader.   

[mkd]

that was a good answer, Neuro. In my opinion it proves pure commie jealousy for the outsiders.The tried an true have and have-nots dog whistle.
Once the insane devaluation of our money is stabilized, what would an investment firm do with the equity on a R.E. asset that normally grows around 3% vs stock market's 10%? Might there be a chance some of this ownership equity will move back to wall street..you know.. because greed and all? Might just blow up this hypothetical freak out, the commies are having.
Have an issue? Free markets have the best (non commie)solutions            

[neurosis]

In my opinion it proves pure commie jealousy

You keep saying commie, but it's not just the left that sees this as a problem. When people can't afford their rent anymore, someone is going to have to subsidize housing. Refer back to the original topic "Half of U.S. Homeowners and Renters Struggle to Afford Their Housing Payments"  I thought that you were anti-commie?   

what would an investment firm do with the equity on a R.E. asset that normally grows around 3% vs stock market's 10%? Might there be a chance some of this ownership equity will move back to wall street

Fair point, Maybe.  Maybe not.

[mkd]

I don't understand why everything is an "it's either this, or it's that" conversation.  No room for those grey areas.  You're either Milton Friedman or Ralph Nader.   

because hypothetical issue mind readers in gov't that create policy by decree, figured Japanese Americans we up to no good and were put in concentration camps by the commie US democrats.
Or the socialist Nazi's in germany.
Or Biden's threats and firings and other abuses if you didn't get an, on balance, harmful medical experiment shot.
that's why.
Our life depends on it.