I’m not sure how much more blatant the bourgeois propaganda can get. I mean, they are just going completely mask off at this point.

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    Derek Thompson:

    At a time of maximal desperation in the U.S. housing market, giant investment banks, such as BlackRock, are buying up some of the few houses left on the market, boxing families out of the American dream. They’re turning these homes into rental units that they will, in some cases, leave to decay.

    Also Derek Thompson:

    But this outrage is misdirected.

    This dude’s talking about new construction as a solution like we don’t already have more homes than people. In his solution, what’s stopping all the new housing from becoming unaffordable again?

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      Exactly this. There isn’t a lack of shelter… It’s a lack of affordable shelter. There should be a 100% tax on non-residential property or more.

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    What a pathetic article. First, the premise is so shaky. It’s based on a straw-man of general American sentiment.

    Then, at the end, he asks us to look in the mirror. Yet, there aren’t any solutions expanded upon besides some shitty “build more rentals!!!” What exactly can a normal person do? Is this guy’s audience landlords? Probably.

    The problem is the market, not housing. There are more than enough houses for everyone. But since it’s a fucking market, what can you expect but a minority landlord class absorbing the largest amount of housings to artificially limit housing? It’s a clear and predictable outcome. Thompson completely avoids this simple fact in order to blame the consumer of a necessity for the shit show that is investor market capitalism.

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    A while ago I was arguing with a neo-liberal (irl), and this is basically what they said, when I was saying capitalism is stopping more apartments from being built, along with other ways it contributes to homelessness.