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This is why housing affordability should be tied to income, rather than willingness to go into debt. As with education, once the banks can get a guarantee that
by 033803throwaway 7y ago
This is why housing affordability should be tied to income, rather than willingness to go into debt. As with education, once the banks can get a guarantee that they will be bailed out in case of trouble (explicit with education, implicit with housing) the race to the bottom commences. Prices go to the moon, everyone ends up in debt slavery
There is a reason the church was so hard on usury. I hope it rediscovers the issue: it is the most pressing social justice issue of our time, cutting across all non-elite identity classes.
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- angmarsbane 7y agoI would like to know more about this. What would it look like if housing prices were tied to income?
- 033803throwaway 7y agoThere are many ways to do it, but one method would be to limit loans to some multiple (say 3x) of someones trailing income (say 3 years). This could be scaled into over time to smooth out price adjustments.