• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Y’all are dancing on this, but if they go through with it, this is going to cause a run of panic that will wipe out the savings of hundreds of millions of people.

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      9 months ago

      It would in the west, in China they do a controlled crash, i mean it’s already happened, one of their biggest housing companies already crashed and it did not caused anything except rise in home ownership among the people.

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        9 months ago

        What about all those unfinished buildings that people got in debt to buy?

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          9 months ago

          They are not needed. There is no one to live in them.

          They have over a billion excess homes. It was the only thing that normal people could invest in so they just kept building.

          If you bought one as an investment, nobody is going to buy them from you. They are worthless.

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            9 months ago

            But what is the actual real-world practical solution for those people?

            Are they now just going to be broke (or even in debt) with no place to live?

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              9 months ago

              Someone buying an unfinished building likely already has a home. If they don’t they can buy one for much cheaper now since housing prices have gone down cuz of the real estate bubble popping.

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      9 months ago

      Evergrande already went bankrupt in 2021 and the general population in China have been mostly shielded from the damage (except the poor billionaires though 😢)

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      9 months ago

      wipe out the savings

      It’s zero sum to the population. Every dollar lost by an investor is a dollar saved by a new family buying a home.

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      9 months ago

      I dont care about investors when their investing in real estate has caused housing to skyrocket in price and making renting the only option for many people, myself included, while at the same time those same people will rent out at astronomical rates making many of us live more than paycheck to paycheck.