I have because I know it has been and is used to keep poor people (******s) out of suburbs. Places are overpriced because someone is willing to pay it, and if they are not, the owner may let it sit fallow...
I espouse equitability. Not equality. Equitability. I am pro-free market for the most part but believe it needs to be blended and in some cases ousted entirely - like Healthcare. The world is a little gray, son. You ought to get out and see it ain't so black and white like your overseers insist.
Well, it was bound to happen, parents weren't going to let their kids live in the basement forever...
This....stuff costs a certain price because folks are willing to pay said price for it. If nobody was willing to shell out $4000 for rent for a 2 bedroom house in San Francisco then rent wouldn't be $4000 for a 2 bedroom house in San Francisco. There isn't exactly a wall around the city, people choose to live there and pay these prices for housing and as long as people are paying the landlords aren't going to lower the rent to make YOUR life easier...
If really interested you should research reconstruction costs, which is used to appraise that big commercial building, and fair market value, which is used for residential houses. My grandparents built a store, and a house, same size, right next to each other; the difference between reconstruction cost vs. fair market value for purposes of taxes was significant. My house was appraised once at about $240,000, it's real value is far less, after the crash. I know what you are saying, there are just many reasons for the inflated fair market value; every location is different.
You showed us your rigid, singular, square thought patterns and your inability to be dexterous with politics. You have displayed failure.
I'm fully aware of con cost vrs fmv. It's part of my job to understand that. The problem with fmv is that it is entirely fictitious BS pushed by the realty industry. That's the issue. Phoney values, pitched to consumers that don't understand what they're buying.
I get it, I knew six guys who rented a house in California. How many of those places look anything like grandma's apartment with the Murphy bed, and the common bath?
Of course they reside in campers and other vehicles more now. Everyone is able to afford to stay at camp sites in their RV's more often and for longer periods of time. My in-laws have taken their camper out over 10 weekends this year and 3 full weeks. I can't recall one visit where the sites weren't completely filled.
Unfortunately for you, no one, even those in your real world, give a good *******n what you think about anything. #facts
Like Willis the truck driver, see CNN, who bought the doctor's house where I used to howl at the moon when it was woods, so she could babysit a housing glut? Like the black in dirty overalls who wanted the big house when my house payment was less than $300 month, after I was forced by law to build bigger. One black wanted me to find him a house, give him the listing so he could get a black agent to sell it to him, because it was a black thing; I had to tell him it was against the law for me to only show him black hoods, he didn't want to live near white, it's a black thing. Phony values and gluts, bad combination, just like eating too much.
They could, and live ten in one of these: https://trekkertrailers.com/tiny-houses/ I think they could build modules for far cheaper than a search for "modular housing" would turn up, you don't stack them, they aren't structure, you pay tiny rent and can take your pod with you if you need to move, it would be like some boat storage, a lattice, twenty people could live where two do, it's just Henry David Thoreau size. People I think are just spoiled rotten.