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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 51 points 7 months ago

if you want affordable housing we need to de-commodify it and get the investors out. no more airbnb, no more one investor group owning 10s of thousands of single family homes. Dumping regular people's money into this system, even if we give them a bunch extra, is only gonna drive prices even further up. The necessities of living are not speculation opportunities for the ultra rich.

[-] HangnMoss@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

This is the correct answer. If minimum wages go up, the price of everything you buy with those wages increases as well, including housing. There's artificial scarcity in housing right now because of investment firms and property management firms.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

wages drive inflation but it's not 1:1 and it does tend to benefit low earners.

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