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by xcom86 1407 days ago
Status quo is not ideal and I don't trust the government to do what is necessary to alleviate the situation.

Let's see if innovation, driven by greed, can change it.

2 comments

Greed created the problem. It will not fix it. We must form a functioning government.
There hasn’t been a single example of a government providing good housing at scale anywhere in the world though. If your target is effectively slums, then sure, form a government who has no incentive to compete for tenants with improvements.
Regulation just pushed the largest mortgage lender out of the market : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-14/wells-far...
Regulation or repeat shoddy behaviour?
show me the great mortgage lender