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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays. [/quote] Ok sure it's tough to buy a sfh, but that's not what they're trying to change all of the codes to build. There will be even fewer sfh under these policies. Is there really a shortage of apartments?[/quote] There does seem to be a mismatch. People want smaller single family starter homes. They are knocking down the old small SFH homes to build big houses that take up the whole lot, and then also building mixed use luxury apartments. Lots being built, just not what young families want. I guess in theory the boomers can sell their old houses to move to those apartments — some do. I’ve seen lots of decent older homes in my neighborhood be knocked down for developers — the incentives are all wrong for people to be able to buy the older housing stock. Years ago there was an article on maybe WaPo about neighbors that bought a house on their street and rehabbed it so the developers would not overbuild it, and explaining the economics of why that doesn’t really work. [/quote] This. Massive ugly houses or tiny apartments. What people actually want are the existing right sized homes.[/quote] So entitlement. They want homes even though apartments are available. Thanks for confirming entitlement mentality. [/quote] Are you the poster who is complaining that this is upending your life?[/quote]
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