Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apartment

Re:Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apart... by kazinator on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @07:26PM (#30849636)

The population of Austria has grown by around 38% in the past ... 100 years.

During this time, the world population has more than quadrupled.

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Re:Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apart... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:00PM (#30849921)

I'm not following why you believe people in Austria should have their rent calculated based on the population of China and India.

Can you explain what you mean in more detail?

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Re:Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apart... by kazinator on Thursday March 31, 2022 @01:36AM (#30864142)

How much more detail?

Growing by less than 40% in 100 years is slow. Austrians hardly had to scramble to provide housing for themselves.

(Now this line of reasoning is simplified quite a bit, because housing is area dependent. Even if the population in some country remains constant, say that everyone suddenly decides that a very tiny area of the country is the only worthwhile place to live. They all concentrate there and now there is a housing problem now. Well, not everywhere, just in that spot! In other spots there are empty, cheap houses.)

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Re:Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apart... by throw10920 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:23PM (#30861566)

I'm not seeing where kazinator said that "people in Austria should have their rent calculated based on the population of China and India."

Can you point out exactly where they said that?

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