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America's housing shortage is keeping home prices high (www.axios.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lumberjacked to c/news

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We’re also seeing a rapid increase in commercial vacancies with WFH. But there are big challenges and costs to turning commercial properties into residential.

I’ve heard a lot about the problems. Surely there’s some good ideas for a solution out there?

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[–] Morogwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

and we're soon going to find out if Biden's student loan forgiveness is going to be canned by fascist ideologues or if the midterms spooked them well enough to handle it correctly. If they decide to pull some shenanigans, there's a real possibility that we're staring down the barrel of a 3rd once in a lifetime economic crash from yet another bubble.