Housing is a basic need and western finance and govt structures work to skim off labour through land. If you are borrowing to rent out you are simply a debt col

Housing is a basic need and western finance and govt structures work to skim off labour through land. If you are borrowing to rent out you are simply a debt collector for the banks. We used to have decent manufacturing jobs where the other half didn't have to work who could run a car, had good hours and enough money. Now land is the primary cost for every family. The same pile of bricks for more of your labour. You happy with that? It's the system not the cost of building or materials. Think of the advances since the 1960s in materials and construction.