Libs love bad faith arguments about housing. Even if they agree that more housing needs to be built - they never want to talk about how that could even begin to happen.
I had some annoying convos at Bluesky about housing. Sometimes I wonder why I ever talk to any lib online. Anyway - I guess I'll keep trying.
Do you have any articles or web pages...
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About the pernicious influence of institutional buyers in the housing market. Related to this is lib tedium like "it is a myth that institutional buyers control a large part of the market."
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That help me avoid any tedious, bad faith, lecture that "it is a myth that there are more vacant homes than homeless people". I want something I can link to so I can say - Look, I don't expect the number of vacant homes in the US to be zero but look at this.
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And I want another this link to avoid lectures that "it is a myth that a meaningful number of homes are kept 'off the market' to raise prices".
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[Whatever else I'm forgetting. Surely there are at least two more list items.]
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NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie is a social media lib darling. The following post is a thing of beauty that I discovered an hour ago. He managed to squeeze in a lot of these annoyances into a single post.
Anyway, it is a myth that there are more vacant homes than homeless people. It is a myth that institutional buyers control a large part of the market. And it is a myth that a meaningful number of homes are kept “off the market” to raise prices.
https://subium.com/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3kzcoa3xjsk2c
Here's one on collusion amongst landlords to push rental prices higher.
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent