Now to be fair it could be honest concern that ham-handed interference in the property market can be even worse: you get corruption, you get landlords doing their damnedest to evict tenants to game the rent control rules, you even get arson.

But yeah, it does sound like the twat in question is just a putz.

I bet you that the lack of supply is mostly the result of developers refusing to build to keep the price of their existing property rents high.

The other excuses are just red herrings

Pretty much, like how developers stopped building starter houses in favor of Mcmansions

There's method to the madness. If they can get you in a state of flight, of any degree, they can make the conservative hustle to you. If the cities are too expensive and full of the homeless, and you choose to leave, your vote is either diluted and made irrelevant or you're contributing to the GOP in some capacity.

Everything is connected, and not by reptoids.

I'm considering getting into real estate here in Austin, there's a group on for $250 to get certified

if you cant be a part of the solution be a part of the problem?

I had an ex-friend who hustled his way into a position he wasn't qualified for out of high school, but from there he made business contacts with revolving CEOs who keep hiring each other whenever the new startup to drive into the ground comes up. So he quickly went from no college degree to six figures.

Good on him, but good god did he turn into the biggest yuppie prick. He went to a $1000 breeder to get a puppie, saying "It's more prestigious than going to a shelter. You don't know what kind of problems you're getting there." (FUCK Bill Burr for pushing that shit).

Then he started looking into buying far off properties so he could become an absentee landlord. When I was talking in favor of rent control, he brought up the usual "That's just the free market. You should be able to charge whatever people will pay." Yes, "whatever people will pay" to not be homeless, because rent seeking always makes for strong economies and selling shelter is exactly like selling widgets.

He married an equally empathetic woman. Someone who really struggled with parents offering to outright buy her a house, and who had my friend support her while she went back to grad school. When I brought up how Bank of America's policy of charging you money for not having a $1000 minimum balance was bullshit, she piped up with the gem "Well just have more than $1000 in the bank all the time!"

I read that and SolRo's follow up comment in the voice of Sheryl Carol from Archer.

Also, I wouldn't say "fuck capitalism" but rather fuck hypercapitalism. The new model has been unstable since Clinton tore up Glass Steagall, which allowed the madness of the real estate market to sell subprime mortgages to begin with to occur in the first place.

Both parties have trashed our ability to have mass social mobility. And the homeless situation is going to explode into plague if Newsom doesn't hurry the fuck up.

"to occur" not "to begin with to occur".

I promise I'm not drunkposting.