Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers
FishFace@piefed.social 3 hours agoIf people really thought that companies buying real estate might, at most, contribute a few percent of the price, while limited supply has led to price increases of hundreds of percent, then we’d be getting constant memes about insufficient house-building and pushes to change that, rather than this kind of thing.
I want to change the narrative, because if all people hear is “COMPANIES ARE BUYING UP HOUSES AND JACKING UP RENTS” they won’t push for the policies which will have a bigger impact.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Did I at some point say we don’t need more housing?
Protip: switch to “yes, and”.
You won’t get a positive response by continuing with “no, actually”.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Right back atcha, pal. You had ample opportunity to agree that the biggest problem is lack of housing. Instead you embraced the narrative of the OP.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 36 minutes ago
In my very first reply to you:
This whole time I’ve been trying to tell you, “no, that is actually a problem” because you started off by minimizing the contribution of corporate interests to the housing problem. I guess I should have made the the implied “as well” more obvious, but it was always there.
You didn’t start off with we need more housing. You started off with “it’s not the companies and they are good actually”.
So no, I wasn’t gonna start off with “yes, and” because what you started with needed actual refuting, first.