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    Gee, it’s almost like corporatizing real estate rental property without proper oversight leads to robber barons trying to squeeze blood from a stone, inevitably resulting in a collapse of the entire system…

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    I moved to Seattle at the start of the plague (perfect timing I know). I don’t have first hand experience from the before times but for sure the last couple of years the amount of homelessness has gone way up. Apartments here are raising rent like wild. They’re definitely testing the line for how many people they can lose to increased prices while still coming out ahead with the people who remain. Once the work from home or fired tech workers move out in full force it’s going to snowball I think. I wonder if Seattle is going to collapse similar to how Spokane did back in the day after manufacturers moved out…

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    Stop institutional investors. Stop foreign investors. Stop anyone airbnbing a place they don’t live in. Then we’ll have housing.

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    It’s okay.

    Biden is focused on the most important issues: running us further into debt to fund other countries’ wars and trying to form coherent sentences.

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      trying to form coherent sentences.

      Repeatedly saying it doesn’t make it true. Look at any Trump transcript though… Now that’s embarrassing.

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      America kinda did promise to back up Ukraine if it was invaded, for it’s nuclear disarmament. To back out of that is a dick move. Supporting Isreal with their genocide is more than a dick move, though.

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        It’s more of a dick move that we’re doing nothing about housing scarcity in our own country, but that’s to be expected when all we elect are wealthy investment speculators.

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        not kind of, we did. To the point that we should be fully in there stomping russias shit from that agreement Russia broke. We’re taking a measured approach trying to avoid nuclear disaster. Fuck Russia and fuck the new Republicans. The old republicans are rolling in their graves.