is it, though? I'm always hearing that we have more empty houses than people needing housing and people just can't afford to occupy them. I mean it's pretty obvious that greed is behind rent hikes, considering how much they jumped after our population SHRANK due to Covid while supply stayed the same. landlords raise rents simply because they can, not because they have to.
they also tend to have lower wages and median incomes because Republicans hate people who aren't billionaire megadonors.
these are not contradictory positions for a conservative to take. Nixon and especially Reagan rebranded the GOP as socially conservative (to the point of fascism) but economically neoliberal. economic neoliberalism is the "no regulations, free market = maximum profit" hyper capitalism that the GOP has been obsessed with for decades.
she's right. cramming people into sardine cans is not the solution. it's shrinkflation for the housing market. ultimately what we need is caps on profit - whether that's the CEO compensation for development firms or limits on raising rent without any property improvements. stop allowing people to be fleeced for a roof over their heads.
don't they have a point though? the town adjacent to my suburb keeps filling dozens of empty acres with massive new developments, and they just spent $9 million to resurface its roads WHICH ARE ALL ONE-LANE. how is anyone going to be able to get from their fancy new house to work or school along with 100,000 other people on a bunch of one-lane roads? it's not that they don't want to grow, but there's more to it than just building a house.
fucking hooray, so he can pay the full half a billion judgment now, right? RIGHT?
literally profiting off THE BIBLE. which he has never read and can't even hold upright. I fucking can't with this guy anymore.
I. HATE. THIS. STATE.