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IMO the best thing we can do to help the poor is fix the housing price insanity.
by swiley 7y ago
IMO the best thing we can do to help the poor is fix the housing price insanity.
- droithomme 7y agoHousing is cheap in 95% of the country.
- curioussavage 7y agoSo what? Most of the population lives around the coast. Who cares if it’s cheap in flyover states.
- sdinsn 7y ago~95% of the country by area. Not by population. I could buy a house in the middle of nowhere for pennies, but it doesn't matter since there are no jobs there.
- chronic7382 7y ago> IMO the best thing we can do to help the poor is fix the housing price insanity. Not everyone has the right to live in the Bay Area or NYC. These are top cities. If you're not top financially, then go live somewhere else.
- sdinsn 7y agoThe Bay Area and NYC are not the only expensive areas...
- core-questions 7y agoAgreed to some extent, but we need to stop pretending that living in a top tier city is some fundamental human right. It's possible some folks simply don't produce enough value to sustainably live in an expensive city, and should go and move somewhere less in demand where real-estate is cheaper. Plenty of such places exist, and really, considering the potential for remote work plus the ease of ordering online, we should be seeing a resurgence of small towns....
- sdinsn 7y ago> considering the potential for remote work That's the most important thing. There is not an incentive to move to smaller, cheap towns since there are not jobs there. Until remote work becomes more commonplace, people are de-facto stuck in expensive cities.