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But with rent that’s more than doubled…
We really need politicians to start paying more attention to the housing crisis. Housing costs have been such a massive squeeze on literally everyone, and it’s an incredibly stupidly self-inflicted wound because for the last 50 years we collectively decided that housing should be a primary investment asset for all Americans instead of a place to live, and fundamentally, you cannot have housing both be a good investment and have it be cheap.
Literally just build more housing. Public housing, subsidized housing, private market rate, yuppie condos, literally anything.
https://usafacts.org/articles/population-growth-has-outpaced-home-construction-for-20-years/
In the last 20 years, we build around a million single-family homes. In that same time period, the population increased by 3 million. There is no universe in which this happens and housing doesn’t become significantly more expensive.
Zoning restrictions is a huge cause of housing shortages and higher infrastructure costs.
Biden is giving developers a bunch of money to convert vacant business properties into housing, so it’s a start.
A band aid solution to the problem, in my opinion, but I agree it’s a start.
Price gouging. Is it price gouging?
reads article
It’s price gouging.
Remember the food lines when Trump was President? I do
the lines at the food pantry every week went from a few people and 5 minutes to get through to 50-60+ and 60-90 minutes during that time.
We used to have a strategic food supply in the US in case other countries fell into famine. Or, if we needed it ourselves. No longer. I guess Congress felt it was too expensive to keep.
Don’t tell me they got rid of the strategic cheese reserve!
The rice was a big hit. No better foreign relations than giving a big ol bag of rice to a starving family. Stars and stripes printed on the outside.
These people need to take a look at The Statistics™ so they understand that the economy is actually very good while their stomachs rumble
Food prices being higher.
monthly grocery bill that now tops $2,400 for her family of seven
I’m not saying the article is wrong, but if you have seven children, you did this to yourself
With so many states cutting off access to abortion, family planning is getting even more difficult.
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I wish your parents had tbh
A family of 7 implies
fivesix childrenEdit: It says her husband was deported to Mexico and she’s now a single mom
So it said “family of seven”, which probably means 5 children and 2 adults, or just as likely, 4 children, 2 adults and 1 elderly parent.
The really weird thing about this is that even without making any sort of moral judgement, the numbers still don’t add up. For example, I have a family of 6 (and only 2 of those are my kids), and our grocery bill is between $150 and $200 a week (about $700 a month). How do you get to $2400 a month? What are you feeding them? Are you ordering takeout ever day? Because that would be stupid.
Right. $2400 buys a lot of raw ingredients. Get a Costco membership ffs!!
If you read the article it states that her husband was deported back to Mexico, so it’s her and 6 kids.
You also don’t know if she lives in a food desert where a single grocery store could charge whatever prices it wants because there’s no competition.
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Ukrainians are actually dying to Russian rockets. Don’t know how you can claim some moral superiority
Stop moralizing. Why do you think the same money going to Ukraine is tied to Israel and Taiwan? Think about it. What connects those three?
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Obtuse much?
I think you mean, “Russian much?” 😉
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Here’s some 🧀 to go with your whine.
Go back to the geriatric
You’re using the word “geriatric” wrong in this sentence
That benefits the United States greatly and boosts the economy. Both conflicts are huge revenue generators and almost all the funding goes to American companies.
That comes out to an average of $330 per person, if you assume an even distribution of taxes paid, which is completely false, so the real figure is substantially lower for the median person.