Imagine we had elected the candidate who campaigned to give first-time home buyers $25,000

[True Dough]

I wonder how this chart would have looked under her leadership?

Barchart
@Barchart
BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market

First-time home buyers have fallen to a record low 📉

[marble falls]

1. Just cut out the middle man: just give it to the 5% who are holding 11,000,000 housing units off the market ...

... to keep real estate prices high. Funny how all the programs meant to help us from problems caused by the wealthy, benefit the wealthy.

It's not the demand. It's the greedy fucking suppliers, the vampire capitalists.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. Hear Hear!

Since most have no idea about this, they tend to feel that most realtors/realty companies are pretty decent people.

They know that this is going on. They have said nothing. So...

(I had a friend who went through an entire two year degree in realty just to quit after six months. He told me that the level of deceit required to operate as a realtor was too unappealing to him to keep on working as one.)

[marble falls]

3. They get really cold with their off job relationships, too.

[Silent Type]

4. When you say "11 M houses off market," does that mean they're rentals or just sitting abandoned? There is a huge market

for rental houses, probably because people just don't have downpayment for a mortgage or are in transition.

[Melon]

5. Interest rates are too high combined with home prices

I want to move but I’m trapped due to interest rates.