Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nation's Largest Cities

Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by methodover on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:36PM (#17439188)

I don’t understand how affordable housing isn’t a huge political issue. It’s missing on the left and the right. Housing is way more important, most people would think, than say, free college tuition (left) or reducing immigration (right) — two issues that get tons of coverage by politicians.

Where is the outrage? Where are the action plans and policy proposals? It bothers me.

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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by rspeer on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @12:51AM (#17447623)

If you look at local city politics, it is a huge political issue, but one that's an extremely divisive issue between the left and the left, between "affordable housing" and "affordable housing". This is the NIMBY vs YIMBY issue.

"Where is the outrage?", you ask. The outrage is on the other side. Homeowners don't want their own homes to be affordable. When property values go down, the people who live on those properties get outraged, and those people are overrepresented among voters. When property taxes go up to redistribute even some of this unearned housing wealth, that leads to "constitutional amendment" levels of outrage.

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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by 1123581321 on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:19AM (#17439319)

It isn’t a problem in much of the United States.

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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by eurticket on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:45AM (#17439738)

What? How is that even possible?

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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by 1123581321 on Monday July 02, 2018 @03:05AM (#17439809)

Look at this map that shows what a household needs to earn to buy an average (not low-cost) home by state. Most places do not have California’s problem. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fatherly.com/news/map-avera...

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Re:Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nati... by EADGBE on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:43AM (#17441521)

Ah, the old "if it's happening here, it must be happening everywhere".

The thing I like most about the US, is it's diversity across all fronts.

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