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marble falls

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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.

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