1. La Vivienda como Inversión vs. Necesidad Humana.
Existe un consenso de que la vivienda es inasequible, pero un fuerte desacuerdo sobre la causa principal. Muchos argumentan que el problema no es la falta de unidades, sino la especulación y el tratamiento de las casas como activos financieros por parte de corporaciones y propietarios múltiples.
- Absolutely accurate. People arent homeless because there arent enough homes. People are homeless because too many homes are treated like stocks instead of shelter.
- Housing isnt expensive because we cant afford itits expensive because the system profits from scarcity. Build more than we need, flood the market, and watch prices collapse. Homes are for people, not speculation.
- We might have to get people to admit that owning more than one house is a luxury they dont get.
- The problem of housing isnt a lack of supply, but a lack of distribution. People are priced out of home ownership because of corporate real estate meddling.
2. La Peligrosa Culpabilización de Inmigrantes.
Una parte significativa de la discusión se centra en la retórica política que culpa a los inmigrantes indocumentados por el aumento de los precios de la vivienda, una afirmación ampliamente rechazada por ser ilógica y racista, ya que este grupo generalmente carece de los medios financieros o legales para comprar propiedades.
- A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to american citizens.
- Hold up. Youre telling me housing is unaffordable because millions of undocumented people somehow bought up the entire real-estate market? with what loans? what mortgages? what credit scores? they cant legally access any of that.
- This fucking idiot thinks people, who work for far less than minimum wages, are buying up all the houses?
- This is about racism and xenophobia, but even without that its ridiculous lmfao problem too many people for existing housing stock solution subtract people instead of problem too many people for existing housing stock solution add houses.
3. El Debate sobre la Oferta y las Barreras Locales.
La construcción de más viviendas, especialmente de alta densidad y asequibles, es vista por muchos como la solución a largo plazo. Sin embargo, esta solución se enfrenta a la resistencia de los NIMBYs (Not In My Backyard), quienes utilizan tácticas como la preocupación por el valor de la propiedad o la estética para bloquear nuevos desarrollos.
- The only thing that is going to make housing more affordable in the long run is building a lot more of it.
- Having spent entirely too many hours of my life interacting with these people, its this but also, nimbys who have figured out how to break the pro-formas of market-rate housing by demanding non-viable levels of subsidized affordable housing.
- Its continually weird to me that people cant accept that the core of the housing issue is we keep making new people. Therefore we need to keep making new houses to put them in.
- I dont think most people actually question that yimby is the answer even some of these who label themselves anti, but then agree with pro arguments when labels are absent.
4. Impacto en los Vulnerables y la Crueldad de las Políticas.
La crisis de asequibilidad está directamente ligada al aumento de la población sin hogar. Se critica duramente la propuesta de hipotecas a 50 años como una trampa de deuda y los recortes de fondos federales para programas de vivienda de apoyo permanente, que amenazan con desalojar a miles de personas mayores y discapacitadas.
- Trump is now proposing drastic cuts in housing grants that would force 170,00 americans into homelessness. Enough is enough. It is time to make housing a basic human right...
- A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea that will certainly lead to another housing and economic crisis. People cant afford homes because the cost of living is too high, wages are too low and billionaires are hoarding wealth.
- The most depressing part is not just looking at the ugly interiors of the st johns wood houses. Its looking at them and realizing that we are in the same world where there are millions of people who can only afford to use construction waste to build a home.
- What i do know is that study after study shows it is cheaper to house folks than it is to allow people to be homeless.