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Re:‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peo... by crooked-v on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:34AM (#35912295)
On this note, I find it increasingly infuriating to keep coming across people who blame all housing shortage issues on eeeeeevil investors and landlords, and spout a lot of bullshit about massive vacancy rates that don't exist, when the blatant root supply-and-demand cause is that there's just not enough physical housing in the places that people want to live.

You see exactly the same kind of stuff endlessly parroted in the US by people who somehow think that confiscating property from all landlords will make the millions [1] of needed housing units just manifest out of thin air.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/homes/housing-shortage/index....

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Re:‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peo... by andrewstuart on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:37AM (#35912750)
>> when the blatant root supply-and-demand cause is that there's just not enough physical housing in the places that people want to live.

And the ALP government is adding 1.5 million people to the demand side of the equation.

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