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Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis (theconversation.com)

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[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They need to start making fucking rent to own a thing again. This shit is getting absurd and they won't like it when we overthrow the landlords for this fuckery.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 7 months ago

I hate myself so much for turning this down... The house I was renting was owned by a really nice guy who lived down the road and couldn't sell it for the 280k he wanted, it was off a main road and directly behind a gas station so I really didn't want to settle there, but for $280k I really wish I could have seen into the future... That was 2 years before covid. A year into covid and all the WFH people moving out to the area the house went to $500k... Now I don't even want to look at what it might be.

All that said I live in a garage now because the fucking prices are absolutely insane.