I cringe every time I hear people celebrate the price of housing going up. Due to financialization we have an economy predicated on the necessities of life becoming increasingly expensive. I fantasize about the opposite; ubiquitous low cost quality housing available to even the most destitute. Sometimes I feel we're in Idiocracy and we're watering plants with Brawndo and wondering why the crops are dying.
Actually, when a company announces layoffs, its stock tends to rise (unless it's in such a bad shape that even major "cost cutting" can't make the punters more optimistic).