I’m telling you, those places are full of depression, conflict, traffic, ample(read: no) parking and those with all kinds of life struggles. People (the ones I know) need some space to maintain a healthy style of living. I can hear the lady yawning through the walls at my place. I yearn for a home with no shared walls sooooooo badly lol.
Comment on Life is unfair to landlords
sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I don’t get why u just blame landlords.
You know what other countries are doing? Building multilevel longterm concrete compact apartment complexes.
What does US do? Nothing.
Blackrook7@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Verat@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We dont need compact apartment complexes, we have plenty of houses being hoarded by companies and landlords so they arent on the market and the few that are can have artificially high prices. There are “Cash for your house now!” signs everywhere where I live plus they keep mailing us too, and those are usually either landlords or house-flippers.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I haven’t seen any hoarded houses in my area. I think someone is doing disingenuous propaganda.
Sometimes houses are empty for couple of years because foreclosure and bank has to wait for liens to clear. My neighbor’s place was held for 2 years, due to stupid system.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s easy to not see something you don’t look for.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
No but seriously. Houses foreclose all the time, they go back to the banks. So bank then has to wait legally required time. And then bank has to do all the repairs and resell shit.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
It’s a multi faceted problem. There needs to be gov program to start building apt complexes . This will reduce demand on houses and drive prices down simultaneously