Is there a housing shortage in your area, why?

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Example housing shortage. Why do you think there's a shortage and how would you suggest it be resolved?

loveslongnails · Accepted Answer

"Affordable housing" is the problem. The primary cause of the affordable housing shortage, especially in medium to large cities, is our good old friend, corporate greed. Over the past 5 years, private companies have bought and continue to buy houses, condo's and duplexes to the tune of 30%-40% of the markets, thereby controlling the pricing and availability. Atlanta in particular has been crushed by this.

Now here's the hypocrisy with our Republicans. They cry about this being "Biden's fault" and want the GOVERNMENT to DO something about it. Wait - you Republican's want "big government" to legislate who, or what company, or how much a private individual or corporation can own in a certain market? Really? That's called "regulation" - the very thing you always cry that you NEVER want.

Be it on the local, state or federal level, you now want "government" to step in and tell private citizens and corporations how much money they can make? How much of a market they can control? Wow, that's rich.

Make up your minds, rocks. Maybe "sometimes" it's a good thing for a governing body to act benevolently for the "good of the people", or is that just too un-American for you?

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

No, just the opposite. People who are trying to sell their homes are either having them sit unsold or they're having to lower the price significantly.

But, overall, yes, there's going to be a shortage of housing. We literally have had 20+ MILLION people enter this country, and all of them are going to want shelter. And they're getting it, and us taxpayers will be paying for it - FOR DECADES to come, because the government took out a loan in OUR name that WE will have to pay back - WITH INTEREST. And they keep borrowing more and more money in our name that we have to pay back, because it turns out that most of these people don't have jobs and can't get any.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

There's long been an issue with 2nd home owners who only come here in the summer or buy to let out as Airbnb. We also attract a lot of retired English migrants. The ability to work from home is now seeing more people of working age moving here too which all pushes house prices and rents out of reach of many locals.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Supply and demand. Keeps house prices and rents high. Also immigration too. Here citizens are being evicted because the government is housing immigrants paying above rent prices.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

We need more high rises in our area. Yes there is a shortage.

msc545 · Answer

We no longer have affordable housing thanks to Capitalism and Reagan. Keep whining about how Capitalism is the "greatest economic system ever devised" and how "Reagan was a great President".

The US economic system has been ruined ever since Resgan effectively abolished enforcement of Anti-Trust laws.

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

Taking away the houses owned by the big housing monopoly and making them available for everyone.

Also rent out the empty houses, someone bought decades ago hoping for the real estate prices to go up, but leaving them empty for decades.

And offcourse making laws to effectively reduce rent, so the average person can pay it.

WindAtMyBack · Answer

Yes. The US is at near record low vacancy rates.

Why? Mostly because of immigration. All those people need housing. Get rid of 50 million immigrants and the housing shortage would more than disappear, and the costs would tumble.

A slight contributor is the decrease in average household size. Families are smaller, and fewer single people have room mates. That means more housing is required for the same number of people.

exitseven · Answer

Yes, but the governor is working hard to fix it. She is causing taxes to go up so much that the state is now the most expensive to live in among the 48 contiguous state. She is also inviting tens of thousand illegal aliens to live here and setting them all up with benefits that citizens only dream of. This is causing people to leave the state and it is freeing up the housing market. Hopefully prices will go down

IslaTheWitch · Answer

in Berlin? of course it is... for unknown reasons all people want to live in the big city :D

bobby_bush_eater · Answer

Technically yes but I live in a thoroughly colonized densely populated area of my state.  It's just more expensive now, even with rates up. I hope the Fed doesn't drop rates again too quickly

Avicenna · Answer

Yes, an interestingly, the investors are less prominent in the purchase market now. There are a shortage of rentals but houses for sale are staying on the market longer.

Unit1 · Answer

In the settlement I'm in, yes, there is a housing shortage. There are on average 20 applicants for 1 housing, that usually gets taken within 24-48 hours. In small towns? Not so much.

Anonymous · Answer

No, but Biden/Harris are the main reasons why its happening all over the country.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, the immigrants are taking up housing.

NathanDavis · Answer

not at all, no

Agape93 · Answer

Nope

Is there a housing shortage in your area, why?

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We need more high rises in our area. Yes there is a shortage.

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We need more high rises in our area. Yes there is a shortage.

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