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This article is about how affordable homes are right now. The fact that I was able to purchase a home in 2019 is irrelevant because I'd be talking about market conditions that haven't existed for several years.
Because everyone knows people all just stopped buying houses between 2019 and 2024 lol.
Is that really all you said in your original comment? Mods are getting worse than Reddit around here. I can't believe they removed that just because they didn't agree.
This lemmy in particular had been pretty rife with propaganda and factually falsified so I think I'm prolly just gonna block it soon.
People modding news related lemmies tend to have very specific biases one way or the other, and it's common to ban people that don't repeat the echo chamber.
I consider myself fairly liberal, but I also can do the math and tell when I'm being fed bullshit.
The constant deluge of "no one can afford anything" news is, imo, propaganda to disperse discontent.
The reality is that very specific clusters of areas don't have enough housing built and it's fucking prices up, combined with a lack of government intervention on a small handful of greedy individuals.
I mostly just assume people that claim "there's nothing in my city affordable" are racist/picky and discarding tonnes of viable homes because they don't wanna live in those communities, so those houses don't count.