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Chris Gaines
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Housing is more of a generational cohort problem than a Dem/Rep issue. Boomers have made building new housing somewhere between illegal and impossible. That’s not a crisis you solve at the ballot box unless I guess you stop voting for all old people.
Also apparently they won’t get out of their big houses. www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/e...
Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families | CNN Business
Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year high...
You have to really change things at the local and state level to fix that issue, and it will look very uneven across municipalities and states.
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Chris Gaines
@bertin.bsky.social
213 followers504 following1.3k posts