>>1566599A lot of genx and boomers don't do their own yardwork and so their kids don't know how to do yardwork because they never helped dad. And that also meant that plenty of kids didn't grow up doing jobs like mowing neighbors' lawns.
They don't catch them because local ones are corrupt and run by politicians who want to appear "compassionate", or blockaded by the same if not directly involved.
>>1566488>>1566504>>1566555>>1566603>>1566615>>1566616>>1566635Housing only becomes affordable when demand is way lower than supply. Supply isn't fixed by just "hurr build more" - it has issues of:
- land being extremely limited in already dense areas (which makes bids skyrocket, see video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEHiuk5o1PI )
- costs to buy, demolish, and rebuild an entirely new building making it not worth the investment if you can't recoup the costs within 3-5 years or so, because the trend among investors has been all about fast flips for like 20 years
- first 3 rules of real estate: location, location, location. Any "affordable" housing has to be in an UNDESIRABLE location, meaning that people only move to it with little other options. Else you have middle class and higher trying to get in. Landlords will charge what people will pay.
- housing discrimination allows for individual "landlords with heart" to act as charities if they existed, but you won't find much of that anymore. This along with tenement-type hive buildings being abolished in most places by code changes has resulted in the minimum available being, in most places, shitty single-room subleases that are WORSE than tenements.
