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First of all, I never said that home ownership had to be single family houses. That was YOUR assumption.
Second of all, while I agree as a general rule that it's better to conserve space by building more dense residential properties, most liveable land is hoarded by rich people. Confiscating the unneeded land of rich people to build affordable housing is one of the few if not the only legitimate application of eminent domain laws.
No, ludicrously draconian enforcement when people missed a single payment was what made it toxic. The banks being stuck with a bunch of unpaid small mortgages would never had caused anywhere near as much damage as what ACTUALLY happened.
I was and I have. The big short isn't about how poor people shouldn't get loans. It's about how banks shouldn't give poor people loans with predatory terms and then gamble the entire economy on defaulted on debt and other junk assets bundled as prime assets becoming worth more.
Finally something we 100% agree on 😁
Most livable land is not desirable because it's rural. You can buy a house in a rural part of my state for 80k. You won't, because it isn't desirable.
My in-laws' home would sell for a whopping 120k right now if you wanna live in a town of 300 in rural Wisconsin.
It's the same picture.
Banks did everything they could to keep people in homes because repossessed homes weren't selling. My dad didn't pay his mortgage for almost 2 years lol.
It is a really great flick/book, for sure.