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Change The System @changethesystem.bsky.social

Lowering interest rates will not solve the housing crisis

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aug 28, 2025, 12:17 am • 9 3

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Brian Hates Cole Slaw @broncomutt.bsky.social

The main problem is that homes are way overvalued. Prices shot up 50-100% mainly due to Wall Street investors snatching up hundreds of thousands of homes since the pandemic. Dropping interest rates will do nothing to improve affordability.

aug 28, 2025, 2:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Mözzerella @cheeserush.bsky.social

Blackstone literally said in their SEC filing that they are buying homes because there is a shortage and they do not see any supply increases coming.

aug 28, 2025, 6:41 am • 2 0 • view
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MrsMNash @mrsmnash.bsky.social

But it will juice up the $100M in bonds Trump has bought since squatting in the WH. Which is the point. And the only point of his relentless attack on the Fed.

aug 28, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view