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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by bagacrap on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:31AM (#35246715)
If no one can afford even a down payment it's because supply is too low. It's not like there are tons of empty houses that mortgages are preventing buyers from acquiring.

Also first time home buyers qualify for very low down payments, like 5%, fwiw.

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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by CuriouslyC on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:14AM (#35247407)
Supply isn't too low, supply has being diverted to investors who often don't reside in the home, or who short term rent it. If there was a big tax on non-owner-occupied single family homes that made it unprofitable to buy and hold or vacation rent, housing prices for single family homes would drop hard.
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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by easytiger on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:46PM (#35266842)
> housing prices for single family homes would drop hard.

No, they wouldn't. as evidenced anywhere this is tried

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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by CuriouslyC on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:06AM (#35275025)
I'm going to need you to back that up with a fair amount of data, because this seems like an easy place for someone with an agenda to strawman.
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