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What a benevolent lord! (media.kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] aidan 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What government has an interest in rising housing prices? Isn't their job the opposite of that usually? Im not familiar with that.

A government who for decades has encouraged home ownership as the safest way of building wealth. A government who a massive number od their constituents are home owners.

And regulators/government should prohibit such predatory practises

Are they predatory? How else can someone live if they can't afford a down payment and can't rent?

Basically my point is that housing, healthcare, public infrastructure, etc should be non-profit imo (so, no dividends/profit payouts, only for r&d or lowering price points and profit sharing to clients).

I understand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh, yeah, politicians working for themselves, that's the exact same reason why taxes on rent are usually kinda low/treated specially.

Yes, really long loans are predatory or if you want to look at it from a different perspective, a result of a non-functioning system. Financial obligations tax mental health, trap people, make enormous cumulated profits on capital without any work & negligible risk.

Central banks restrict max durations on mortgages/loans as is (also like what clients minimal disposable income after loan payments must be each month, age, max ratio of loan to property value, etc). And yes, if nothing else changes, that is bad for young people trying to buy a house, start a family, central banks acknowledge that, but their job is monetary policy/stability, not social policies - the government is the one not doing their job.