You mean my not owning a home is not just because I’m a bad person and had too much avocado toast?
Hey now! If you don’t eat Steak and Eggs for breakfast, like the previous generation, how can you afford a home?
Of course it is. Everyone in the US who’s watched TV in the last few years has seen companies and privileged individuals buying any privately owned property available for any reasonable price.
Are they reselling them? No. Are they renting or leasing the worthwhile properties for outrageous rates? Yes. Are they bulldozing lodgings and putting up apartments at every other opportunity? Yes.
Are they aiding the housing crisis by building new single family dwellings? No.
Are they forcing as many people as they can into rental lodging with decreasing prospects of those families and individuals ever owning their own house? Absolutely.
Honest question:
If they’re bulldozing lodgings and putting up apartments instead of building new single family dwellings, isn’t that helping the housing crisis by supplying higher density housing? Like you can house more people with less land?
Been 16 years already?
Yup.
About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died…
…fuck…that’s dark. Sorry things swung that way for your family.
I lean on the word “about”.
He actually illegally enlisted in the Navy during WWII when he was 16, so it was more like 20/21 when he bought the plot and materials.
Ya, still dark AF. And I also don’t think its a rare family story.
Rent till we die! Yayyyyyy
Honestly, the only reason I want to own is because I have gotten too old, out of shape, and fat to move most of my furniture myself, and I am not sure I can afford a mover, so I want the security that I am on a straight and narrow that doesn’t have the constant looming threat of the owner going “yeah… I’m just not gonna renew the lease” even though I am still somehow keeping up with the payments.
