Drop in the bucket, the issue is with zoning and how banks are apportioning debt and packaging home loans.
If we want home ownership to be available to the common person, and are unwilling to set a realistic national wage, we should just allow the Fed to issue home loans again and get rid of the middlemen all together.
Biden has done something to reduce housing prices, which was my point. It’s a whole different argument to say he hasn’t done enough or has done the wrong things - fine, I was just saying it’s unfair to say he has done nothing to help.
Zoning and loan structure isn’t nearly the problem that wealth inequality is. Tax the fuck out of the upper income brackets, and put it in the hands of consumers to spend and drive the economy and buy fucking houses.
Didn’t we change the rules for realtors to reduce their commissions?
Drop in the bucket, the issue is with zoning and how banks are apportioning debt and packaging home loans.
If we want home ownership to be available to the common person, and are unwilling to set a realistic national wage, we should just allow the Fed to issue home loans again and get rid of the middlemen all together.
Respectfully, two things: