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> thanks to 13th amendment Same with housing segregation and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's exceptions: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1691 htt
by Lammy 5y ago
> thanks to 13th amendment
Same with housing segregation and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's exceptions: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1691 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1691
Just like the 13th still allows slavery for prisoners, the ECOA still allows discrimination if the person can't afford the home, incentivizing the system to make housing as expensive as possible: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OEHRENWBSHNO https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OEHRENWBSHNO
- tinyhouse 5y agoWhat are you talking about? Are you saying housing is expensive is a discrimination?
- Lammy 5y agoWhen it's coupled with an economy that disenfranchises certain groups over others, yes, exactly. Like how America offshored all the manufacturing jobs that used to provide for the middle class.
- fighterpilot 5y agoIs it the housing being expensive per se that's discriminatory, or any laws that stand in the way of increasing housing supply? I'd say the latter.
- IncRnd 5y ago> the ECOA still allows discrimination if the person can't afford the home, incentivizing the system to make housing as expensive as possible I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying that you will sell your house to someone who can't afford it, possibly for a much reduced price?
- Lammy 5y agoObviously not. That's why it's such an insidious and esoteric way of pulling up the ladder behind the chosen groups.
- IncRnd 5y agoWhat is your point then? What you are trying to say? Your words give the impression that you believe when a person cannot afford a house, that is discrimination.
- Lammy 5y agoI don't get what's so difficult to understand here. It used to be straight-up illegal for certain people to live certain places. The system shifted to covert discrimination once that overt discrimination was outlawed. Housing became an investment so the people with equity would never want to dismantle the system, and all the accessible jobs went away. Now the people who used to be overtly discriminated against have no ladder to climb.
- IncRnd 5y agoSince each of the people who responded to you, responded similarly, then perhaps the obstacle was your original wording and not with the people who replied. What you wrote in this post is entirely different from what you wrote in your prior post.