• Cowbee
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    I am referring to the literal times we live in. Single-family housing units are being gobbled up by large firms, this will not show up on your graph just yet.

    The Workers are now recieving even less of the Value they create than before, that’s a wild way to justify this.

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      18 days ago

      Corporations owning houses is a tiny percentage, again, home ownership rate is 60%+

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        18 days ago

        It is not a tiny percentage, and it is getting worse.

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          18 days ago

          It’s not even a special problem if a corp is a landlord or just one person.

          The problem is not enough housing, not enough construction. Housing prices are actually decreasing in Austin because Texas builds

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            18 days ago

            Landlords are problems themselves, it doesn’t matter if it’s a corp or a person.

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                  18 days ago

                  Why? It’s impossible for all of the homes to be owned, we’ve been between 63-68% home ownership

                  In fact, a nasty thing happened when the home ownership peaked around 2008

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                    18 days ago

                    Public and individual ownership. Renting for profit is predatory.