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I still don't understand how this hasn't been a bigger priority in government. I wouldn't expect Republicans to care about it at all, but it feels like nobody is giving it any attention at the State or National level. These out-of-control rents and housing prices are insane. I've got a relatively ok salary and I'm barely staying on top of things, but I don't know how the hell anybody else is still holding it together.
Lobbying and self interest.
These reforms may result in housing prices decreasing or holding steady. Which is a plus for anyone entering or laterally moving to occupy. It's a negative for people using housing as an investment.
It's not a stretch to assume that a lot of politicians are in the multiple land ownership territory. And thus, would "hurt" them personally.
Same with WFH endangering commercial real estate. Lobbies and personal interest. Plenty of business owners in politics.
More to the point, it will cost them any support among suburban homeowners, which is how we got here in the first place. That's a massive bloc of voters and very few homeowners don't see their homes as an investment
Yes, the "fuck you, I got mine" is the core American voter demographic, unfortunately.
Only cause the boomers make up the largest voting block right now and they know no other policy than, "fuck you, I got mine."
Sadly prominent in the younger home owner crowd too.
"Well, did you buy when interest rates were low? No? Guess it sucks to be you"
There’s also the fact that plummeting property values is really hard to sell to the majority of the voting base. Many homeowners won’t vote for someone who will tank their often largest asset. A lot of the middle class has a lot of their money in mortgages on their primary home.
Landlords have a constant stream of income that they can use to affect politics while that same stream of income negates the occupant's ability to influence politics. Renters ought to unionize.
As always, citizens united was a disaster for our country. Or at least, it was a disaster before, and citizens united turbo fucked an already terrible problem.
The Dems only real position right now is "not being Republicans." They're barely able to maintain the status quo and prevent us from backsliding further, there's very little chance that any forward progress towards a better future is going to come from them.
Not sure why you're getting down voted so much. We have no truly leftist or left of center parties in this country. We have fascism-lite and status quo right.
When Nixon won he won by a super large percentage. Almost all the states were red. Look at the electoral map for Nixon's win, if you can find it, it's shocking. You know why it looked like that? The DNC ran a progressive candidate. And they've not done that again since.
Not saying Dems aren't better, by far they are, but they aren't progressive and we can't expect them to enact progressive changes.
Just gotta keep voting for the lesser of the evils until these dinosaurs either retire from, or die in, office. It's sad, it's frustrating, but it is all we can do for now. Keep voting for the party not actively rooting for a dictatorship and we might make it through this.
My mantra is, "change happens everywhere but the general"
General elections need to be reformed before a real progressive candidate has a chance at election, and even then, a progressive president has little chance of enacting real reform once in office.
Those reforms happen and the local, state, and Congress level, and even more often they happen at the union and labor level.
People are bickering over our binary choice for president, but the real focus should be on the lower offices. When you're shooting to kill, you dont aim for the head and fire once , you aim for center-mass and steady yourself for repeat shots. Or I guess you get real close and use a sawed-off.
This is why I hate the Dems. They aren't fucking doing anything. Yeah, they aren't Republicans, but they claim they can't get anything done because the Republicans won't let them. Then why are they letting the Republicans get so much evil shit done? How is it that one side can accomplish their agenda and the other side sits and goes "sorry guys, they don't want to share their power so we won't be able to accomplish our goals lol better luck next time. " Fucking useless twats.
People down voting this but not arguing it is pretty telling. Libs hate being criticised but can't argue it without sounding whiny "they tried!!"
Local and state politicians are all landlords and real estate developers unfortunately.