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True Dough

(24,587 posts) Sun Jul 27, 2025, 08:15 AM Jul 27

Imagine we had elected the candidate who campaigned to give first-time home buyers $25,000

I wonder how this chart would have looked under her leadership?

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Imagine we had elected the candidate who campaigned to give first-time home buyers $25,000 (Original Post) True Dough Jul 27 OP

Just cut out the middle man: just give it to the 5% who are holding 11,000,000 housing units off the market ... marble falls Jul 27 #1

Hear Hear! OldBaldy1701E Jul 27 #2

They get really cold with their off job relationships, too. marble falls Jul 27 #3

When you say "11 M houses off market," does that mean they're rentals or just sitting abandoned? There is a huge market Silent Type Jul 27 #4

Interest rates are too high combined with home prices Melon Jul 27 #5

marble falls

(68,734 posts)

1. Just cut out the middle man: just give it to the 5% who are holding 11,000,000 housing units off the market ...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 08:24 AM

Jul 27

... to keep real estate prices high. Funny how all the programs meant to help us from problems caused by the wealthy, benefit the wealthy.

It's not the demand. It's the greedy fucking suppliers, the vampire capitalists.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,147 posts)

2. Hear Hear!

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 09:07 AM

Jul 27

Since most have no idea about this, they tend to feel that most realtors/realty companies are pretty decent people.

They know that this is going on. They have said nothing. So...

(I had a friend who went through an entire two year degree in realty just to quit after six months. He told me that the level of deceit required to operate as a realtor was too unappealing to him to keep on working as one.)