Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
by philipallstar on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:14AM
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One of the main housing issues is government interference. People want to do things to get money from other people, including building houses for them to buy.
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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
by somenameforme on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:29AM
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You're probably being downvoted because you're just assuming everybody knows what you mean. For somebody who doesn't it's going to be a nonsensical statement. The issue is that the government mandated banks enable easier access to loans for housing, as a means of resolving prior housing issues.
But what happens when you suddenly start giving a bunch of people the ability to go arbitrarily far into debt to buy something that they perceive as priceless (because housing, and most any other 'thing' tends to endlessly appreciate in value in an inflationary economic system)? Obviously prices skyrocket. The exact same thing happened with education for the exact same reason.