America's Housing Crisis: From 2 Million to 7 Million Shortage in Just 6 Years

The return to Feudalism? Actually only what we call things has changed. Kings, Lords, President.

Yeah well talk to Blackrock and Vanguard

Migrants have been given the affordable housing.

The east way to solve the housing problem?
People choose to live in cars which means cars can be lived in then think of all the millions of empty cars parked up every night that people could sleep in and instantly you solve much of the housing shortage scenario

Investing companies shouldn’t be able to own single family homes, I’m looking at you Black Rock, State Street and Vanguard.

It's not a housing shortage, it's an overpopulation increased issue, legal and illegal immigration. Just under Biden alone, 10+ mil illegals .

look, build 1,200 square foot homes that investors CAN'T purchase. that's the answer, plain and simple.

The system created the shortage.

You haven't been to Utah lately have ya? Sitting in an years long ongoing building boom here

Sardine studio era

This is how you keep a population in prison without a cell 👏 😮

And then bring all the illegals over and they need a place to live.Thank you democratic party

Once they deport millions upon millions of illegals, guess what? There will be millions of places to live for Americans.

Illegals

Let in 20 million people... there you go.

Unreal so many vacant and abandoned homes.

I grew up middle class🤔✌️✌️✌️✌️

Cost

I call BS housing is prevalent there’s plenty of land so what’s the real reason? Hedge funds bought housing as investments and drove the market to these unaffordable prices. Where’s all the cash buyers now? Sitting in the properties.

The cost went up over 100,000 for the same house and one that needs work

Maybe we let some in, so they can help us build our housings

Lefties.
That's your answer!

Daddy Trump is going to deport 11 million illegals, problem solved

Nobody is building modest 3 bedroom, 2 bath homes with 1800 square feet.

Thank God these big corporations didn't"get smart"until just recently!We could've had THIS housing problem years ago.

Answer: who's in charge!?

Always blame the government.

There’s not a housing shortage

What was price of house then the inflation of house is why there not building and rich did this with help of banks and people are getting poor er and can afford them greed has over come reality

In California it is because of regulations like it cost about 50k per entry level home that goes to taxes and code enforcement.

Materials are too expensive so builders profit margins are much smaller on lower to middle class homes. It’s also more difficult to get loans from the banks and the interest rates are outrageous. People also don’t have enough money for down payments because our economy sucks right now!!!

No one build starter homes anymore! Every single person is looking for a home once at least three bedrooms and two bathrooms. There are so many homes available today that are two or three bedrooms with one bathroom, which makes the entire house much cheaper. Who builds a basic ranch anymore? No one!

There’s plenty of houses we don’t need to build anymore. You need to be able to buy the ones are already built, which is impossible. Why would we build more if we can’t afford the ones that are already vacant

And we keep importing more homeless people

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Stop the monopoly companies from buying them.

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The bubble will pop soon. People don’t afford the exaggerated and inflated prices that does not match what people can afford

yeah well, the people who own homes decide whether or not they want more to be built. And who owns homes? Old people. Who says our generation is lazy and complains too much? Old people. Who is the biggest voting block? Old people. Our country is run by retired folks, to the benefit of retired folks. All while running up the national debt, which their grandkids will have to pay

No more middle class. Almost like Americans forgot how to fight for what's right. Same steps were used to destroy China b4 communism

Developers are in Gov't. Illegal people coming in.
Waalaa. Presto chango shortages

Can't stand this guy who is he?

Starter homes still exist. They're in areas with no jobs.

It's not because of investors buying homes, or because of interest rates or even cost of materials. It is simply greed of the builders, they do not build any starter homes. Every new single family home that is built is a 4,000 square foot monster of a house that sells for $600,000 to $800,000. The average first time home buyer can't afford a $4000 a month mortage + town tax+ home insurance +utilities. If they built modest 900 square ft homes that people could afford even with the higher interest rate that we currently have, we wouldn't be in a housing crisis.

Dude, houses are not cars. You don't replace them every 5 to 10 years ffs !

we have a small housing shortage and a large divorce abundance

The more government gets involved in something, the worse it gets. Observe health, housing, and education. All have been deeply impacted by countless Federal interventions, and all have reached exustential crisis points.

This is all stuff I already know but maybe someone who doesn’t know all this will watch and get some value out of it. So I’ll leave this comment for the algorithm.

There might be a silver lining to how gen z has replaced religion with politics. Unlike religion, politics actually matters. And a generation of people who are aware, conscious and paying attention to the issues are also people who can get organized and take serious action to get things done. What gen z needs right now is a leader who can galvanize and direct that energy in a productive and effective way. In his book the 4th Turning Is Here, Neil Howe writes, “social progress requires social discipline.”

The world we live in, both its good and its bad didn’t happen by accident. It happened by the concerted effort of people generations before us working towards a goal. Progress is not inevitable, it must be worked at consistently little by little every day. That’s the thing the liberals took for granted in 24. We got so used to seeing win after win stack up over the past 80+ years we took it for granted. In my lifetime gay marriage and weed have both been legalized and gay couples are now finally allowed to be out in the open as fully participating members of society. But I wasn’t there for the dark days when things looked hopeless to the marginalized people of the time. I wasn’t there for the Stonewall Riots, I wasn’t there for the Jim Crow era. For me as a millennial these events were things we learned about in history class that happened a long time ago. I wasn’t part of the generations of people who came before me and did the hard work of setting the wrong things right, but I got to enjoy the fruits of their labor. I got to see the first black president. I got to see gay people become openly accepted in society. I got to see weed legalized. All of this took decades upon decades of hard, steady and disciplined work done by good people who saw there was something wrong in the world and decided to do their part to change it. We took that progress for granted and treated it like a boulder rolling downhill, but that’s not how it works.

We forgot that social progress requires social discipline. Hopefully gen z remembers that in time to do something.

My landlord just sold 8 houses to an LLC then they raised all the rent double! Now I’m staying at campsites for the time being