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by jhancock 6194 days ago
I agree with you. but...a home is not a share of stock. Everyone needs a roof over their head. Giving the houses to people that stayed within their means doesn't solve the problem of keeping everyone in a home. In short, you shouldn't treat houses the same as we treat stocks.
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> Everyone needs a roof over their head.

They can go back to where they were before. They can live where the folks who will buy those houses are living now.

There's no shortage of housing and if we're going to subsidize these folks, these houses are the wrong place to do it.