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Brainfood
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Thank you for sharing. I can personally say this same process has driven me to the brink of sanity. 10 years of managing a chronically ill child’s healthcare with multiple surgeries. Being a developer with the ability to navigate complex problems, social engineer people who have turned into robots, and enough income to make it through unforeseen lump sum payments - I cannot fathom how the average person deals with this. I made more $ than I ever did before to cover the costs and afford the best healthcare possible but the system is designed so we still get screwed and have nothing left. Thankful for the people who dedicate their lives to helping others. To everyone else who can justify profiting off of someone else misery, while being the richest and most advanced society on every other level? I have nothing nice to say to you.
Brainfood
·hace 10 meses·discuss
@thecupisblue. Amazing work. Logged in just to tell you this. This has just given me goose bumps and made me excited about the web again. I’ve been struggling to find my groove in the dev world post AI and have been digging back into AR and WebXR just for the fun of it. Thank you for the game and more importantly the renewed inspiration to make something cool!
Brainfood
·hace 3 años·discuss
I don’t get into a lot of conspiracy theory scenarios. I also don’t think it’s even much of a conspiracy - when the recession hits and people can’t afford housing they default on mortgages. Corporations buy them and turn back into renters. I’ve seen stats that say that happened to 5% of the population during the last 10-15 years.

Also there’s stuff like this:

Over Two Thirds of All Los Angeles Rentals Are Now Owned by Speculative Investment Vehicles https://knock-la.com/los-angeles-rental-speculation-4022d16a...
Brainfood
·hace 3 años·discuss
Thank you
Brainfood
·hace 3 años·discuss
Wow thanks everyone for the replies!

I hear you on homes but housing overall - apartments included should not be owned by corporations for investment purposes imho.

Rough stats I’ve seen are 25% of homes are now owned by institutional investors. And 44% of CA residents are renters. Having a quarter of the inventory taken off the market means the prices are going to go up.

Land is expensive. We can build more. We can also stop allowing those who have more than enough already continue to apply downward pressure.
Brainfood
·hace 3 años·discuss
LA resident since 2015. I have a proposed solution that no one ever seems to bring up on here but I would love to know the HN response to this:

If a big essential part of the American Dream is home ownership, and we are short on homes, why do we allow corporations to own them all? How about we have a middle ground or cap on size of corporate entity and # of units or something?

Some of the argument seems to be stuck on free housing for everyone, and everyone else seems fine allowing faceless corporations to own everything and turn us all into renters.

I know I’m leaving out plenty of specifics of how this would work. But the basic concept is same - people (not companies) should own housing. Let me know your thoughts.

My first ever HN comment so hopefully this is seen.