@return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 9 months ago‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trendmoneywise.commessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1226arrow-down18cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foo
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minus-square@Peaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink-1•9 months agothe people complaining they can’t buy a house aren’t the unhoused crowd to begin with.
minus-squareANGRY_MAPLElinkfedilink0•9 months agoIf it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
minus-square@Peaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•9 months agoThat’s true but it doesn’t change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn’t an unhoused person.
minus-squareANGRY_MAPLElinkfedilink1•edit-29 months agoThat’s true, but that person wasn’t me. I wasn’t defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.
the people complaining they can’t buy a house aren’t the unhoused crowd to begin with.
If it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
That’s true but it doesn’t change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn’t an unhoused person.
That’s true, but that person wasn’t me.
I wasn’t defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.