@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 months agoOwning a home has rarely been this much more expensive than rentingfinance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up1365
arrow-up1365external-linkOwning a home has rarely been this much more expensive than rentingfinance.yahoo.com@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 months agomessage-square161fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•5 months agoHow have we screwed up as a society, much less species, when shelter is seen as a financial investment rather than what it is, a thing we literally need to survive?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•5 months agoWell, as houses don’t magically appear out of thin air, I guess it has been like this since we started building permanent shelter.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•5 months agoUntil relatively recently, it wasn’t that uncommon to just go and find some unused land and build a house on it. No intergenerational wealth required.
How have we screwed up as a society, much less species, when shelter is seen as a financial investment rather than what it is, a thing we literally need to survive?
Well, as houses don’t magically appear out of thin air, I guess it has been like this since we started building permanent shelter.
Until relatively recently, it wasn’t that uncommon to just go and find some unused land and build a house on it. No intergenerational wealth required.
Unused by white people?