Posted on 02/01/2025 9:32:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Marxist, communists and socialists don’t need homes. They can sleep in their vans.
Day going bye bye.
Let them practice what they preach!
Who did they vote for?
As a quality engineer, I sometimes explained to non-engineers that my job often basically involved me acting like a toddler. You know, at the stage where they follow someone around asking "Why?" over and over again to every response. :-)
and at that income and rent they should be able to save like 100k a year...
If one does “5 why’s” on house prices but doesn’t hit on immigration as part of it, then like the author of this article, they are part of the problem.
What about that BLM co founder a 40? yr old black woman who blames everything bad on whites. She has “somehow” managed to buy at least three different homes since the George Floyd riots of 2020. And what do you know? Her biggest home is in a gated neighborhood full of white and asian residents.
They are not part of the problem when someone fools others to believe a 750 square foot house, built in 1955, in the middle of the California desert, is worth 350,000.00. It is criminal.
What is he doing to make the money?
LOL. Per the article, the lad is four years old. Cut him some slack.
I get your point that perhaps their toy budget is a waste of money, but I looked at Target’s website and toy monster trucks are in the $4 to $30 range. Even if the tyke has $1,000 worth of such toys, it’s not as if that would have been enough to make any kind of dent in their housing situation in Santa Clara county (median home price $1,500,000). So let the boy have his damned trucks, lol
Bingo!
That's backwards. How can wages possibly keep up with housing prices that are kept artificially high?
Just for fun, I looked up the modest house that I grew up in, in Sonoma County, CA. Modest... 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, small kitchen, living/dining room, 2112 square feet. My stepdad built it in 1957. Its estimated worth is around $1 million. Which is ridiculous. My bigger and newer house in Texas is "only" worth about $330K.
Sadly, what is lacking among so many Californians is a basic understanding of supply and demand. They vote for policies that prevent construction of new housing at the same time they vote for policies that try to force builders to build "affordable" housing. So, what do they actually want?
It's a sad situation. I would love to go back to California, but the CA of today is not the CA where I grew up.
I laugh out loud every time I see one of these commercials promoting apps that tell you that you are paying for subscriptions that you did not know you had.
Who raises a kid that needs an app to tell him he is paying for stuff he didn’t realize he was paying for?
As a seventy-something I review transactions made on my bank card every time I log into to my bank account and there are never any surprises.
How hard is that?
I grew up in So.CA, Lived in the Seattle area for 20 some years , and now live in Hawaii( for the last 25 years)
I understand expensive real estate!
The problem is not “forced” affordable housing,
it is government. They won’t allow use
of open land.
Government run by mostly Democrats.
They want everyone to live in Prison like conditions.
as opposed to letting us be free,
I don’t want to wait for bus to go to the store I want to go there when I want to go there!
even if the store is 3 miles away.
As an adult in CA I did 140 miles per day just for work.
In WA State I did about 60,000 miles per year work and recreational commuting in MY car!. In Hawaii my wife and I
do about 15,000 miles per year as we can’t stand waiting for a broken bus.
What is my point? I lived in areas, I could afford, they all required a long commute.
Democrats want a 15 minute walk or bike ride to where
you shop, work, go to school, or recreate in the politically
correct way.
Give people options, they are very innovative,
Democrats are NOT!
I’ll stick to my 5 Acres, with animals, fruit trees and a real garden and a drive to the store over an Apartment and taking a bus any day.
I routinely conduct searches in the California Digital Newspaper Collection, and have, of course, out of curiosity, checked up on the evolution of real estate prices in my old neighborhood (likewise in Sonoma Cty.). Homes that were built and marketed in my upscale neighborhood in the late-1950s for $24,900 had "skyrocketed" to $39,500 by the mid-1960s (when we moved there). By the mid-1980s, the price range had shifted to $350,000 - $400,000.
True, a lot of that was due simply to appreciation in value of the land (the nearby area had become "built-up"). But the remainder?
Regards,
move
Bingo!
Did they tell you who they voted for? No? Then you have no idea.
Perhaps Trump can help with “supply and demand” by lowering demand, by deporting a few million illegals. And also by eliminating housing vouchers for welfare families in high-cost areas, and make them MOVE to low-cost areas.
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