Re:Why Do We Still Commute?
by crdoconnor on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:46AM
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Making city centers affordable would just require once again turning occupying / owning land into a tax liability rather than a rentier asset that grants you an effective right to tax others.
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Re:Why Do We Still Commute?
by chrisdbaldwin on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:29PM
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Rent certainly makes it more affordable to live somewhere until you suddenly never own your home and the rent was higher than the potential mortgage the whole time. I understand home ownership has a lot of hidden costs, but I think the rent situation is a festering cancer preventing the growth of a middle class especially in cities.