• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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          2 years ago

          Okay, but your assertion was that there are not enough homes currently to support our population if they weren’t traded as a commodity. In NYC alone there are over 3.6 Million Housing Units and a population of 8,258,035, with about half of the units being rental and about 1/20 being vacant.

          You haven’t provided any evidence that there aren’t enough housing units in the USA.

          A decline in housing project expansion is meaningless without context of how many are actually in use.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Even a small percentage is good. The situation is desperate.

      The fewer first time home owners that get out bid by corps the better. Doesn’t matter if it is a drop in the bucket.

      And that’s even before considering how it would help stop housing from being an investment vehicle.