I was a homeless child in the 70s, on my own at 15. Back then if you could scrape together any money, you could get a cheap room, I'm talking 9 bucks. There were a lot of options...people rented out rooms, cheap hotels were accessible to anyone, and once you got on your feet there were cheap apartments. Today's homeless have no cheap options. If you don't have hundreds you are outside. And there's a lot of people outside...and it's a cold place to be.
@rishnayak46923 жыл бұрын
That's about 65 dollars on today's dollars, which from my experience is the usual price of hotel room
@Itsnotanymore-ku7dz3 жыл бұрын
Ah The freedom land of the 1970s
@blizzleberrydeluxe293 жыл бұрын
@Impersonal Immigrant thats enough to fill 5 football stadiums!
@maus0liam3 жыл бұрын
@Impersonal Immigrant why does the total percentage decrease the value of the 500k lives it impacts? A human life is a human life.
@rishnayak46923 жыл бұрын
@Impersonal Immigrant the fact that on the Richest Country in the History of the World has 500K homeless is absolutely sad. We should not have even 1 person on the streets. Plus the fact that you are taking data from January 2017, and we don't know how much worse its got after the Coronavirus Pandemic.
@Matt.983 жыл бұрын
The San Jose petition against the construction of housing for their own’s kids teachers is awful! Shame on those who signed it!!
@Romo20553 жыл бұрын
wait what? why tf they do that tho
@israeldelosreyes8083 жыл бұрын
Supposedly because of property value
@RealestDave3 жыл бұрын
Right! I mean we're talking public school teachers here, not ex-convicted felons, geez
@jonathanrouse3 жыл бұрын
The way the parents see it, it’s just giving a reason for teachers not to commute 30 minutes to an hour to the school like many families do. On top of that, it lowers their property value. The meetings are (knowingly) full of homeowners. If you don’t go to the meetings, you don’t get a say, so go to the meetings.
@capt.boedeker17853 жыл бұрын
To be honest I live in San Jose…They didn’t mention it explicitly in the video. But the issue was they wanted to use commercial zoned land for housing. The district they wanted to build in was Willow Glen. It made sense on paper 📄 to demolish unused or empty business centers for affordable housing. But some of the older generation people of a certain social economic background really don’t like change…IE Old School “Chads and Karens”. I think it would be a great idea to change out unused properties into affordable housing…or put housing on top of malls, since they already have the allotted parking spaces. Or access to public transit.
@lovemusicbandchorus2 жыл бұрын
I find it incredibly hypocritical how these same people that show up to these zoning meetings to say "not in my neighborhood" and keep new housing from being built, are the same ones who complain about how something needs to be done about "the homeless problem." Creating affordable housing is the first step to doing that, but these people care more about their property values than their own humanity.
@RedHanded1969 Жыл бұрын
Its really BIGOTRY, modern-day BIGOTRY hidden is myriad of fancy arguments. Lets not shy away from calling them out & be side tracked by non- issues..
@mrbanana6464 Жыл бұрын
They don't want to help homeless people, they want to get them off the streets i.e. forcibly remove them
@buzzfeedright4154 Жыл бұрын
Abandon zoning boards all together and let natural demand do it’s thing, you’ll have more than enough to go around.
@garrettstephens91 Жыл бұрын
Anyone in their right mind would want their property values to go down because that would make their property taxes go down.
@buzzfeedright4154 Жыл бұрын
@@garrettstephens91 Yea, my favourite day is the one I find out I’m underwater on my mortgage; that would be just awesome 😎
@MrTonglong2 жыл бұрын
“What do we want?” “Affordable housing!” “Where do we want it?” “Not in my neighbourhood, it’ll hurt my property values!” xD
@jamesbra44102 жыл бұрын
Same thing with public transport lol. No the people with houses don't want to be associated with "the lower classes". They have spent their entire lives segregated and sheltered from anyone not like them and now have to work endlessly for their master to afford their toys. No people like that are the embodiment of the issue. They are bitter slaves chained to their worthless stuff and have tuned into the culture of discrimination and competition for resources. Make them pay for something twice the real price and make them think that only the most privileged get to live in a house and drive a nice car. It's utterly sick but they are in sense above all others if you think about it they were specially chosen by their little corporation because of their exemplary records and ability to deliver profits.
@michaelmullin35852 жыл бұрын
Exactly. So-called "affordable housing" is welfare housing that attracts undesirables in spades.
@wxyz4592 жыл бұрын
@@michaelmullin3585 you are aware that OP is mocking you, right?
@yourlogicalnightmare10142 жыл бұрын
If the gubbament takes an action that steals $$$ from you, they should have to compensate you for it.
@ImTheFatboy2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelmullin3585 that's the general misconception yes. Thanks for proving OP right in your own little way smh
@DanielFranquiz3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget about how these zoning laws have made new cities increasingly car dependent.
@Grug3 жыл бұрын
Good mass transit doesnt exist in America like in Europe or Asia.
@LisaBeergutHolst3 жыл бұрын
Which everyone will pay for not only through climate disruption but the simple cost of repairing or replacing car-centric infrastructure.
@thairinkhudr42593 жыл бұрын
Guess you can see who's interests the laws are protecting.
@DanielFranquiz3 жыл бұрын
@@albundy3929 You can have a peaceful neighborhood while also providing more forms of transportation besides using a car
@thairinkhudr42593 жыл бұрын
@@albundy3929 Supposedly. But homes aren't so affordable now. Makes more sense for people to live in cars nowadays. Guess being a "homeowner" isn't for every one.
@ScytheNoire3 жыл бұрын
This isn't just an American problem, but also in Canada. Canadian housing prices are at an all-time high, and completely unaffordable.
@UltraInstinctGoku693 жыл бұрын
Well regulations are bad,but only when a black liberal says it is That's how America works,Vox somehow used the Race in this issue.
@aletheiai3 жыл бұрын
That depends on location. The big cities are unaffordable, smaller towns are not out of reach (yet!).
@TheRoyL3 жыл бұрын
@@aletheiai Towns in Canada may not be as expensive but they are more expensive that towns of their size in most countries.
@gidd3 жыл бұрын
@@colinqualm6422 Nah ,you have no idea what you're saying. Netherlands is nothing like this
@colinqualm64223 жыл бұрын
@@gidd your right you can't compare it with America for example, but it is a rising problem.
@johansilwouden34032 жыл бұрын
In my country, the Netherlands, housing prices have also gone through the roof! One of the reasons is, that mortgage rates have been low for years and that ( wealthy) people in general invest in real estate. We do not have the strict zoning laws mentioned in this video, in our densely populated country row houses and semi detached homes are the norm. However, we have a ton of karens and darens in our little country that suffer from the not-in-my-backyard syndrom. Im my town, a project developer wants to repurpose several old commercial and school buildings and turn them into appartments for young people to prevent them from moving to the nearby bigger cities. Many people in the surrounding neigbourhoods have signed a petition against it! And the same people are complaining about the lack of teachers, doctors, nurses and restaurant staff in our town!
@musafawundu67182 жыл бұрын
There are such obtuse people everywhere then...
@checory2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the input. I agree that it's not about the zoning law, but it's about the cost of housing and the cost of the land. And why is the cost of the land so attractive? It's about the services the municipality provides and the job opportunities in that area, that's what people are willing to pay for living in that city. If the land is too expensive and there isn't a job market, or if people cannot afford to live there, then it doesn't work. Similarly, this is why you see so many remote digital service workers leaving north america to go to greener pastures, such as Mexico or Portugal because it's the lower cost of living.
@jamesbra44102 жыл бұрын
Yeah there is something really damaging about the Boomers. I've found that they're extremely predatory and scared oh my god so paranoid to lose their little feudal society. They will sabotage public projects like this to deny the youth affordable options. This is what happened in California with public housing, the homeowner residents will petition against it. Meanwhile you have a young person working full time not able to make ends meet and then you get sabotaged by some pig who skated through life a few decades ago.
@johansilwouden34032 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbra4410 Well, to make matters even more complicated: some of the people who signed this petition actually live in public housing! They are certainly not super rich, but they are kind of well off, having lived in those (subsidized) public housing for decades, which can be quite nice in my country, like 2 story duplex houses with front and backyards, having enjoyed stable jobs for decades, and now those baby boomers do not want to look at 3 or 4 story affordable appartment buildings for young people! So the young people stay in the big cities after they have finished college! And take up jobs in those cities! Which is bad for smaller towns in our country!
@steffengustavsen96782 жыл бұрын
In netherlands its much easier to buy a home so poor people can take advantage of rising prices. Here in Norway you cant borrow over 5 times income and you need 17.5% equity. Norway is the perfect example that goverment regulations to prevent "speculation" is just making housing more and more expensive.
@alexzandermunoz52022 жыл бұрын
Another huge issue is large firms mass purchasing homes. Large corporations shouldn't be able to control the cost of housing.
@RedHanded1969 Жыл бұрын
Stop blaming corp, they can only do that if there is a housing shortage. If there is abundance of housing, corp cannot do that. Lets be clear on the root cause here.. Socialist countries hv no corporation, look how well their economy fare. Free market is a superior sys, as long the citizens can think logically & dont become bigots, which is not the case in housing. Systematic racism in housing policy & city design remains, n is glaringly clear to ppl who has a critical mindset..
@lmy2366 Жыл бұрын
That has a minimal impact on the price of homes. The total value of all real estate in America is some 43 trillions. The size of the real estate market is too large for anyone group to absorb all supply. Corporations would also have a good usage for said homes (renovating, then renting out) in any case, as it wouldn't prove economical to sit on the land. The main problem is zoning laws as shown in the video. In all cities in this nation most land is zoned for single family homes. It's not sound to house people in such buildings if the aim is affordability for reasons obvious.
@garrettstephens91 Жыл бұрын
@L My It does affect the price of homes because I have personally seen hundreds of homes purchased by Corporations like Black Rock that sit unoccupied for months to years because the company wants people to purchase them for $1,000,000 each when the local market dictacts that these houses are only worth $450,000 each. Either that, or they will purchase 2000 houses for 900 employees and sit on the rest to wait for themselves to grow.
@kimlarso Жыл бұрын
Large firms are also buying up Nursing homes and Private duty=Good Luck getting anyone 1 person to be held accountable for any negligence =they’ll just throw that accountability on nurses & cna’s and people wonder why nurses are leaving the field?! Health care is now ALL about money & politics (and in politics, no one ever gets made to take accountability)
@lozoft9 Жыл бұрын
The only reason more of a fuss is made about BlackRock et al buying up single-family homes in our media is b/c it affects the constituency that politicians and the economy have historically been the most responsive to. The single-family rental/flipper problem is a minor issue that's downstream of exclusionary zoning, supply, and affordability.
@bhflute3 жыл бұрын
If I were a teacher in San Jose and the parents blocked affordable housing, that would be the time I would resign. No appreciation whatsoever…
@siskananamuk473 жыл бұрын
It's the kids who suffer.
@Pxlarizar2 жыл бұрын
@@siskananamuk47 what
@JKARAZMOJML2 жыл бұрын
@@siskananamuk47 and if the parents cared theyd do bettet
@TurtleWatching2 жыл бұрын
So you would want affordable housing on top of 82k a year? That is average for this area. It can be upwards of 97k a year. Any one making 6 digits a year can afford a 800k house. Which is what they are going for. That is saying that the teacher is married and has duel incomes. What is affordable for someone making 82k a year? I think people don't realize what teachers actually make on average.
@bhflute2 жыл бұрын
@@TurtleWatching actually…yes, yes we do. It is a chronic problem that teachers cannot afford to live in the areas in which they teach. I have to live in a neighboring district because I can’t afford to live where my students go to school.
@LeventK3 жыл бұрын
This is the refutation of "If you're homeless, just buy a house."
@pranshuanandvatsa90973 жыл бұрын
Okay you are homeless from 100 year living inside manhole
@0IIIIII3 жыл бұрын
Get educated
@axios76033 жыл бұрын
@@0IIIIII if your uneducated, just be educated duh
@0IIIIII3 жыл бұрын
@@axios7603 go to community college and go to state school. Take out cheap student loans and make yourself better. It’s easy
@kirzadamar99003 жыл бұрын
Or "if you're poor, just have money"
@akalixevelynn29322 жыл бұрын
lets not forget the richer population isnt just moving into the fancy houses they are also keeping hold on the smaller ones to rent out and hording basic living needs for profit.
@bisiriyutajudeen57282 жыл бұрын
They’ve essentially turned homes into investment goods rather than consumption goods. The funny thing is that most people would do exactly what these rich folks are doing if they were in their position. Why? Because increase supply devalues their property hence the pushback via zoning. If these rich folks have fled storing their wealth in cash because cash is infinite then I can see why they don’t want the same thing happening to their new store of value(homes)
@aidanluhmann30282 жыл бұрын
Yeah renting is the reason we have the housing crisis. That and no public housing option
@hellogoodybye442 жыл бұрын
I actually don’t see anything wrong with renting out houses as it meets the end goal of getting people in houses. Home ownership is preferred but renting has its place. Some people may not plan on being in the area that long and need a house to live in for a few years without having to go through the hassle of buying and selling. Also renters aren’t liable for the property so they aren’t on the hook when things go wrong that are out of their control. The problem is the supply of homes is so low that landlords can charge exorbitant rents because there is so little competition. Don’t wanna pay $3600 a month for a small 2bd 1ba? Well there’s not many other houses available and there are plenty other folks looking who are willing to shell out that cash. So the problem isn’t renting in if it’s self, it’s that there aren’t enough rentals to meet demand so landlords can charge whatever they want. Go look at rentals in Oklahoma County (which is basically the greater OKC area) and you’ll see plenty of reasonably priced houses for rent. Some examples: -3bd 2ba for $1,375 -2bd 1ba for $1,600 -3bd 2ba for $1,499 -4bd 1.5ba on a 1.1 acre lot for $1,195 -a gorgeous 3bd 2ba for $1,750 Supply in relation to demand is way higher in OKC compared to other cities where the housing crisis is hitting wayyyy harder. When supply rises in relation to demand, prices go lower 😊
@nictipton14132 жыл бұрын
Well, of course they are doing it. It is smart from a profit generating standpoint. After the housing market crash and interest rates and stocks plummeting, my grandparents wanted something that was more reliable than the stock market and since interest rates were so low, CDs were out of the picture. So they started buying homes that were being foreclosed and using them as rental properties. It was great for them, not having to worry so much about money that late in their life.
@aidanluhmann30282 жыл бұрын
@@nictipton1413 That's great for them but everyone else (working-class families that is) is caught holding the bag. Landlords contribute no value to society.
@karliebellatrixyoung63592 жыл бұрын
Some of the most egregious behavior on this topic comes from people who are well enough off to own their own home and worry about things like "neighborhood character" but not well enough off to actually help their children buy a place of their own. This might be the worst peacetime hazing any generation has been put through by their own parents.
@camthesaxman3387 Жыл бұрын
A lot of those neighborhoods don't even have character to begin with. It's the same 3 houses copied and pasted for miles, making the whole neighborhood look bland and soulless.
@arianamooon Жыл бұрын
@@camthesaxman3387 it doesn’t just look that way- it is ☠️ horrid!!!
@laurab951811 ай бұрын
My parents have hundreds of thousands at least. Close to or around a million in liquid and own a big house. They would never help me or my brother but a home. They are boomers who cannot understand why things are so tough rn
@_volder2 жыл бұрын
To even call small single-family houses "starter" houses is to deny another extremely important fact in this. Average number of kids per household is going down. If you never have a bunch of kids, you never need to move to a big house meant for a family with a bunch of kids. The "starter" house could just as well be permanent, not a "starter" at all... but that's exactly what builders aren't building.
@bixnood72732 жыл бұрын
We are just going to import Mexicans to have a bunch of kids.
@AlNexus2 жыл бұрын
@@bixnood7273 what
@tesmith472 жыл бұрын
They mean starter house in terms of value, i.e. regardless of family size the equity will be the bootstrap to buy a larger, fancier house in a more upscale area
@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki2 жыл бұрын
@@tesmith47 That "model" worked for fifty years. I'm not sure it's going to work in the future.
@tesmith472 жыл бұрын
@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki that was part capitalist money scheme
@jgmm263 жыл бұрын
About 1/4 of homeless people in the USA are employed. And a lot of housed people pay 50% of their income or more just to stay sheltered. Can't expect people to work their way into a house.
@mugumyapaultheafricannomad94883 жыл бұрын
Shocking. Meanwhile in African cities anyone earning a monthly salary of $100 can still have a rental unit, feed his wife and kids on the $100 monthly salary... Let me take more time to study how US systems on basic housing, education and healthcare work.... I'm getting interested to learn. So far what I have gathered, a US citizen living in a big city like San Francisco and earns $50,000 a year lives a way struggling life than a Kenyan in Africa who stays in Nairobi city but makes $4000 a year.. shocking 🤔
@0Lu.Lu03 жыл бұрын
Bad. No one should be paying more than 30%, 35 at the very most.
@rudetuesday3 жыл бұрын
At least 2 of my managers at different jobs were homeless, either sleeping in their cars or on friends' sofas. My own rent was half my pay for a while, and this was at least a decade ago in Los Angeles. Things have only worsened for more and more people.
@whiggerhunter42683 жыл бұрын
I remember this guy i met back in 1997 at a temp agency. He used to make 250k a year running a warehouse. Dude lost everything because of drugs. But he told me with all the money he was making, he couldn't buy health insurance as good as "Medicaid". . .
@penname84413 жыл бұрын
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@Nicolas___ Жыл бұрын
For me as an European and urban planner, it is interesting to see how single-family housing policy in the USA is finally reaching its limits. Detached houses may be in demand, but they take up the most space per capita, generate a lot of car traffic and create monofunctional quarters. Significantly more apartment buildings are needed in connection with local public transport. Affordable living space can then be created with public funding. Incidentally, the urban sprawl can also be curbed somewhat. In short, it needs actual regional and urban planning.
@LutraLovegood Жыл бұрын
And as the climate crisis gets worse those single family housing units are going to have to go anyway.
@Kate-fc2cu Жыл бұрын
Good insight. Too many cars is the worst! I live in Florida and what is most frustrating is all the beautiful plots of native forest that is just now being sold for commercial development, aka tacky boxes with parking lots :/ We need more dense, affordable housing for the average first time homebuyer to enter the market, not shopping malls. Unfortunately real estate can be very lucrative and renting is the new form of income for many..
@aduckett516811 ай бұрын
I feel like they also tend to be solely housing areas... you cant "live there" like you can in Europe.. with shops and stores and restaurants.. you have to drive to get to those places
@unconventionalideas568311 ай бұрын
Detached housing is not really in demand. Many places had already started changing laws when this video was made to make it easier to build housing, but it is not immediately going to fix anything.
@DADRB0B557 ай бұрын
Most modern apartments are basically giant parking garages so your little theory failed. Now if they built courtyard style apartments instead of luxury apartments that would affordable housing, if we built starter homes instead of mini mansions that’s affordable housing.
@gwils78792 жыл бұрын
It's very interesting. After WW2 when there was a housing crisis the government stepped in and funded building a bunch of small, inexpensive, homes for new families. Now, they sit by and watch an entire generation watch their dreams evaporate and wring their hands over what to do. Or, just do nothing. Has the Federal government even remotely mentioned taking action on this? Like, real, tangible, action?
@taino-sr2vy3 жыл бұрын
And then people wonder why 20 and 30 and 40 and 50 year Olds are still living with their parents
@SamTheMountainBikeBeast3 жыл бұрын
@Impersonal Immigrant well it’s shameful if you’re not even trying to get out of the basement
@leosunaquamoon3 жыл бұрын
@@SamTheMountainBikeBeast most of houses or apartments don't have a basement. If you're working and sharing the costs, why should it be shameful?
@nelsonth3 жыл бұрын
@Impersonal Immigrant it may not be shameful, but for LGBTQ youth and those with abusive families, living with their family may not be an option.
@capt.boedeker17853 жыл бұрын
@@SamTheMountainBikeBeast I Live in San Jose my dude. Why you dissing my man cave. 😂 We’re going to split up the house into four separate living areas but build the House as one unit. It’s the loophole in the zoning laws. So it’s still one big single “family house house”. Then if anyone moves out or dies we can rent out that space to anyone who needs a place to live. Throw solar on that baby and bam. Only have to pay Water, Internet and Streaming services. Split that up with the rest of the family and your can then save your money to actually live. It’s possible but then again people need to have the right attitude about it…I grew up with only 1 bathroom in the house with like 7+ people. Shared a room with my younger brother for 20+ years the struggle is real in the Bay Area. Attitude is everything.
@rookie45823 жыл бұрын
@Impersonal Immigrant There is no shame in living with parents. Shame is having absolutely no job and being a freeloader leaching from parents in your late 20’s.
@schwarzwolfram79253 жыл бұрын
We've created a country where the best home is a vehicle not a building. That's the sound of failure.
@worldwide66263 жыл бұрын
WE SHOULD BUILD MORE APARTMENTS
@danamoore17883 жыл бұрын
@@worldwide6626 I am going to disagree. I lived in an apartment for twenty years. The same one as a matter of fact. Every single year the rent went up. My salary did not. At the end it was costing me to live on my own. And since I could not save. I could not look to move out either. Unless I wanted to throw everything away and live in my car. Oh right I couldn't afford a car while I was there either. Then the real kicker? They have rules about entering your apartment. They need to give you 24hr notice. Well it was usually about ten and covered about a three month span. So a note on the door today meant they can come in whenever September, October, and November. Supposedly because they were changing filters for the winter, but it was used blanketly. Then a day after the old note expired. New note for the next three months. Better to have small houses than give everything to a manager that doesn't care about you from a hole in the ground.
@danamoore17882 жыл бұрын
@@zUJ7EjVD How? How does making more of a place that is run by third parties that just see you as a necessary nuisance improve everything?
@DepressinglyOptimistic2 жыл бұрын
@@danamoore1788 I agree. Apartments are by law ran by third parties in my area. You cannot purchase apartment (and building-space partitioned beyond a condo really) space unless you are a business. This means you can never have legal right to an apartment md so it will always be used for someone else to make a profit off of. This means as living expenses go up the property manager can raise their own income as needed as tenants’ income remains the same. This is a very big problem and building more will not fix this issue.
@m_fredi95492 жыл бұрын
@@DepressinglyOptimistic and what if that law changed?
@marctestarossa2 жыл бұрын
"Multi-Family-Buildings are banned from this area" easily translates into "We don't want poor people here!" or "Keep those slaves out of my neighbourhood!"
@cyrusmarikitph2 жыл бұрын
They are r4c15t indeed.
@StormerKiing2 жыл бұрын
All until homeless people show up in their neighborhood.
@bobmanhunter2 жыл бұрын
“Don’t add housing because then homeless people will come.” Are you for real? Don’t you see the effect of not enough housing, as this video clearly shows, is houselessness? Tell me what happens when you can’t afford a place to live if it’s not homelessness?
@juliav.mcclelland24152 жыл бұрын
I hope everyone they need to drive their buses, teach their kids, and do any work for them leave. Come here to Pennsylvania, everybody! Very few HOAs and plenty of multifamily housing available in Pittsburgh alone! (My roommate just bought a new rowhouse last year, I looked at every home of every type within his budget for months.)
@_Pixie_10 Жыл бұрын
which is ironic, because rent currently costs more than a morgage, insurance, taxes, and maintenance. We literally pay more to live per square foot than homeowners that live in a 5 minute walk away.
@officialViVi62 жыл бұрын
I have an older lady neighbor that keep asking us to move because since we don't own our own business and don't have a nice car, it's driving down the property value of her house and she's trying to sell her house and can't get what she wants for her house till we move or hide our car. So the struggle is definitely real. She's trying to sell her house over 300k more than what it was last valued as just 10 years ago. She's already gotten over 20 offers around the price she's asking.
@watch19812 жыл бұрын
Boomers are the worst most selfish generation ever
@route66paul2 жыл бұрын
She could buy you a better car and pay to fix up your home.
@garrettstephens91 Жыл бұрын
What a c***.
@theultimatereductionist7592 Жыл бұрын
Cuntservaturds have NO business blocking anyone OUTSIDE THEIR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY. ANYTHING outside THEIR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY is PUBLIC / GOVERNMENT. Therefore, according to conservative religion freemarket anarchist ideology, they have NO business ACTING OR BEING ENTITLED TO MAKE DEMANDS ABOUT ANYTHING outside THEIR own private property. Period.
@theultimatereductionist7592 Жыл бұрын
@@route66paul EXACTLY!
@AdrienVanca3 жыл бұрын
I travelled once to the US and I was shocked by how low the building were and how wide the cities expanded. Everything makes more sense now.
@frankpinmtl3 жыл бұрын
Developers plan it that way.
@bobbyc11203 жыл бұрын
People like the idea of low density building but they don't think about the issues with it.
@diegogomez20522 жыл бұрын
That’s because your country is literally smaller than Texas
@Toastmaster_50002 жыл бұрын
Depends on which part of the country. The denser parts of the northeast have plenty of 3-storey houses. In the denser parts of the southeast, there are residential skyscrapers.
@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki2 жыл бұрын
@Rita 25 y.o - check my vidéó Canadian problems getting there were and are quite different.
@exaucemayunga223 жыл бұрын
As a 21 year old looking for an apartment in Phoenix AZ, I was disgusted when I saw how much 1 bedroom apartments cost💀. The minimum wage increased by $1 and the apartment prices increased by $400 on average 😂
@trishayamada8073 жыл бұрын
I had friends move down to AZ. They are trying to move back as wages aren’t as high as they expected, fees (like registering their car) are expensive and their rent going up $800! So their apartment went from $1200 to $2000. They thought they would live such a cheap life there and have found it’s not. Now they are struggling to move back.
@isaacwestling11413 жыл бұрын
This may sound like a strange option to ya, but maybe look at other cities, towns, or villages. Phoenix might be a cool place and all, but there may be a place that you'll find to like a lot better if you give it a shot. Depending on the type of job you want to have, you could look at places across your state or the country to see what fits best for your price and job preference. It may not be Phoenix, but it will give you the time and experience to save up and move to Phoenix if you choose to do so in the future.
@beemo93 жыл бұрын
Rent a room in a multi-room apartment until you can afford the luxury of having your own place.
@keirfarnum68113 жыл бұрын
Shouldn’t that be a “😭” emoji?!
@calicodeath3 жыл бұрын
My friend bought a house in Mesa 2 years ago and it's now worth double. It's not even a nice looking neighborhood. I say sell it and wait for the crash. It's ridiculous seeing rents the same in Phoenix as in LA!
@ericwright85922 жыл бұрын
More mixed use would help a lot too. When you have a small grocery store or work is walking distance from your house it's pretty life changing.
@brickmack Жыл бұрын
Yeah. That was a mistake I made when I bought my current house. My next one will be within walking distance of a grocery store and at least a couple restaurants, non-negotiable.
@MLFreese2 жыл бұрын
1,400ft or more is only a "starter" home for a couple who want to have kids in the future. For many single people, that amount of space is like a mansion. There are more childfree people than ever before in history, yet the vast number of new and existing homes are for sizable families. All thanks to government regulations.
@bluebee52662 жыл бұрын
If you don't have children yet you don't need to live in a single FAMILY home.
@potatosalad9085 Жыл бұрын
it be that there are more childfree people because of the general expense of housing and cost of raising children
@garrettstephens91 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and more people need to start having children and the amount of immigrants into the country (no matter from where) needs to go to zero. Childlessness = narcissism.
@algotkristoffersson15 Жыл бұрын
@@garrettstephens91why do so many people hate immigrants? I don’t get it.
@lu8813 жыл бұрын
_"I'm worried about my property value"_ Is basically residents saying they want to keep housing scarce, just to drive up the value of their homes.
@ronanstephens15973 жыл бұрын
Most of the developed world is built on the principle of funding the retirements of the elderly by not providing enough housing to everyone else.
@bitsnthings3 жыл бұрын
I miss the days when the only thing that could damage your property value with an explosion in your front yard or a tall cobblestone tower…
@isaacwilliams85283 жыл бұрын
I don’t blame them.
@Grug3 жыл бұрын
Owning a house builds equity, building an apartment building and having rental units near it would affect their equity. They are looking out for their own interests. Its not about keeping housing scarce for homeowners, only flippers, investment firms and iBuyers worry about that.
@0Lu.Lu03 жыл бұрын
GREED. Greed and a Slaveowner mentality.
@AHegberg3 жыл бұрын
sounds right. and everyone wonders why the homeless rate is sky rocketing
@mitchclark15323 жыл бұрын
It's not because of zoning. lol
@Sampsonoff3 жыл бұрын
@@mitchclark1532 I certainly think zoning leads to downstream effects that contribute to homelessness. The feeling that you can’t build a normal life, a big part of which is buying a home, leads people to feel hopeless about their future. This is an increasingly common sentiment. It increases the risk for mental health problems and drug use. So yes, absolutely, the increasingly unaffordable outlook on life is facilitating social decline on vulnerable populations
@bealltho13 жыл бұрын
@@Sampsonoff that's like saying your outlook changes your situation. It doesn't do anything other than separate yourself from reality
@vincetagliano99103 жыл бұрын
The homeless can't afford a 10 thousand dollar house let alone a million dollar one.
@valerygomez70943 жыл бұрын
@@Sampsonoff Move to a more affordable part of the United States. Stop dreaming about owning a home in Bel Air.
@CarloDavid2 жыл бұрын
This is a huge problem in South Florida. I see land being cleared constantly for less-affordable housing: single-family units starting at over 500k. The rate at which high-cost, single-family housing is built exceeds the rate for commerce and multi-family units. If you want to live here, you have to buy an expensive house, then you have to drive everywhere because the nearest store or commercial area at least 3 miles away.
@infantebenji2 жыл бұрын
I concur I had to live South Florida (Fort Lauderdale ) because I couldn't afford it despite living there since coming as a child 2004. Its sad that we voted for politicians who couldn't careless about average people but willing to look out for the wealthy out of state people. Everyone I know in my former city is cost burden yet feel powerless that's beyond sad
@kellharris24912 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you should move away from there. That's what I think when I here about those hyper wealthy Silicone valley people. Eventually if they can't get a teach or whatever they will have to raise pay and stuff. These things are self defeating. The more we go to remote work the better. We can live were we want to live.
@PeterRiello Жыл бұрын
@@kellharris2491 If everyone decided to move to cheaper areas, it would simply relocate the problem to those areas. Unnecessary zoning laws are found all over the country.
@artisethistoria42692 жыл бұрын
Live in Silicon Valley. My husband is getting paid more than the average. We still can't afford a regular studio-apartment rent. We simply got super lucky with the place we have rn. The second my work authorization comes through and I'm allowed to work me and my husband are likely getting of here. It's soul-crushing.
@FinancialShinanigan3 жыл бұрын
Now areas that need affordable housings are being roadblocked by residents who benefited from all this
@the_rubbish_bin3 жыл бұрын
NIMBY
@ericBorja5203 жыл бұрын
NIMBY's
@RealestDave3 жыл бұрын
They are protecting the appreciation of their assets(homes) which they probably over-paid for. Most would do the same
@the_rubbish_bin3 жыл бұрын
@@RealestDave it's still selfish and exclusionary. Everyone needs a home...
@dennisp85203 жыл бұрын
@@the_rubbish_bin sorry but people are gunna act in their own best interest. You want cheaper housing which is in yours people who own homes don't want that unless they magically get to start paying less on their debt or something
@CTEagleCeltic3 жыл бұрын
Parents in San Jose… the same people that are good enough to teach students, aren’t good enough to live in the neighborhood?? That’s how you end up w/ teachers that Do Not Care about YOUR kids.
@bubba69893 жыл бұрын
I left San Jose, even with a college degree, its just unaffordable to even get a studio, like I think most people complaining don't want much, just to be able to survive and save a little.
@123asap63 жыл бұрын
this is also why the next generation of kids will probably be the least educated american generation in recent history. Teachers as a whole just are not appreciated in their communities yet at the same time, those SAME parents who want their kids to succeed are also the ones driving the teachers out. No problem for them since they can hire private tutors but what about all the other kids who cannot afford something like this? This is exactly the problem with America. Lets be frank. Congress is owned by the rich and elite. Democracy as we know it is already in terminal decay. There is a reason why socialism is so popular amongst the younger population now EXACTLY BECAUSE the last generation AKA those in office refuse to listen and live on the rhetoric that they will go back to the good old days when they are the same people who ended that era by their wanton destruction of what made us a great country one policy at a time.
@wet_back3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that was so messed up. Honestly, i'm shocked that any teacher with any self worth would still teach there. With parents like that those kids are already lost, no helping most of them.
@wet_back3 жыл бұрын
@@123asap6 Couldn't have said that better myself. No one can disagree with any of that. Although I have a feeling that boomers are technically more in favor of "socialism" because they want to ensure that their social security and medicare remain intact and aren't bankrupted due to younger folk not working and paying into their entitlements.
@bubba69893 жыл бұрын
@Rain Raçhel bad take lol. If your teachers cannot afford to live in tbe community it means: 1. They will feel more detatched from the community they teach. 2. Longer commutes means less time doing actual work. IE tutoring, grading, etc. Theres no benefit to having teachers unable to live where they teach, and actually makes it more appealing to skilled teachers to move to cheaper areas with competitive pay. No ones saying they need a mansion, but i've heard stories of teachers living in their cars... if you think thats normal or sane, please seek counseling.
@FurryMeatloaf2 жыл бұрын
The median home price in my town is $386K. The median household income is $56K. It's going to hit the point where the economy will collapse because no one will be able to afford to do anything (dining out, entertainment, travel) other than pay their mortgage/rent.
@lizzyfrye1991 Жыл бұрын
I keep telling people if it keeps getting worse before it ever gets better we could be seeing a great depression a 2nd time around and who knows how long it will last before things get better if that happens again! Like you said if people can't afford to do things the economy will collapse because money isn't being spent around.
@andyusfca Жыл бұрын
dont forget the property taxes...hehehehe
@ft9kop2 жыл бұрын
When I was in high school, I could only take the ACT once because the second exam was in a high school in the suburbs 2 miles walk from the nearest bus stop. My family was poor so we couldn't afford a car or taxi rides. I ended up getting into a great university with my SAT exam, which was much more accessible in my area, but thinking back on it still hurts. No kid should be denied an opportunity to improve his standing because his family is poor
@sagebay2803 Жыл бұрын
Good job with getting your degree!
@AliciaGuitar4 ай бұрын
It was opposite for me, no SAT but i did ACT. My family could only afford one.
@joboshobos3 жыл бұрын
im fascinated with european zoning, as living in an apartment with the stores you need right downstairs as well as good public transport due to a higher density of people, creates less of a need for a car, therefore living a healthier and cheaper life.
@BomberLT3 жыл бұрын
I Europe we have a problem when zoning is not as harsh and people straight up set small houses on fire just to drive their value down, buy multiple lots of land and build an apartment complex
@LisaBeergutHolst3 жыл бұрын
That's socialism lol
@LuvJT1013 жыл бұрын
@@LisaBeergutHolst You should look up the definition of socialism. You clearly don’t know it.
@Jolene83 жыл бұрын
Not healthier and definitely not cheaper. Cars still exist. The areas are highly populated and trafficked ones. In the U.S. and in Europe.
@LisaBeergutHolst3 жыл бұрын
@@LuvJT101 r/wooosh
@channelname31432 жыл бұрын
My in-laws would sit around, talking about how they were going to renovate their home to get more money out of it when it came time to sell, so they could have a cushy retirement, right before nagging us for having no plans for any grandkids for them. We were struggling, barely affording our rental space, gradually losing all of our money because everything is so expensive. They simply didn't comprehend the times have changed. We asked the family to allow us to privately buy from them their grandmother's home, after she became unable to care for herself. They rubbed their hands together at the prospect of selling it. Absolutely no interest in keeping assets in the family..... Generation selfish.
@zeepickens27122 жыл бұрын
*Wow!!!!!!* 😕
@aluminumfoil7702 жыл бұрын
Nursing home for them then
@nailslacquer2 жыл бұрын
They think we're lazy and it would never happen to them. Did you know the credit score wasn't a thing until 1981? They ushered in this failing system and now are snobs to their children bc it failed and we can't be a part of it.
@PartnershipsForYou2 жыл бұрын
I hope those in-laws enjoy bingo nights because that’s all they get in the Retirement home
@fredfischer44182 жыл бұрын
Same here
@yvonnefarrell10292 жыл бұрын
Would you go to the grocery store and say, "I'll pay 20% more for those potatoes"? It is the same thing. It should not be classed as any kind of investment; it is not a competition or a lottery, it is a human right, housing; just like food.
@Cassiterit32 жыл бұрын
While Portland did change their zoning, they used it to make apartments that are studio and one- or two-bedroom that are STILL absolutely unaffordable. The rent hike this year was 28% across the area. And yet only now does every business on every main road have a "now hiring" sign--I've never seen so many!
@coopergates9680 Жыл бұрын
The possibility of moving out of my mother's Portland home, after being postponed year after year, doesn't seem too probable. With all this laissez-faire going around, what's to keep prices from jumping when people discover affordable, desirable areas and flock there?
@RealDexterMidnight Жыл бұрын
Me and my parents where looking at a studio and rent was 1.2k wich isn't bad And the owner said he doesn't trust us and that we could party
@sweetkittykat20003 жыл бұрын
I presume the same parents that are against building affordable housing for teachers are also the parents that sit and endlessly complain that teachers aren't doing enough for their precious children. That's just my theory though...
@milk97203 жыл бұрын
@@H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H good ol American hate. We got a tough guy here folks
@jamesherr81493 жыл бұрын
You know what really weird a bedroom community with out any kids in it... 😖
@EvergreenVB3 жыл бұрын
What does affordable housing mean? Do we build a standard unit for all teachers? What if one teacher lives alone and the other has 5 children? Personally I would prefer if we built more multi family properties and allowed teachers to receive the proceeds from such properties until they leave the school. That way there would be more housing, increased income for teachers, more jobs in rental management, etc.
@daniellamoreno36163 жыл бұрын
Sounds about right.
@brandonburns53653 жыл бұрын
@@EvergreenVB that's pretty much what affordable housing is.
@bibliophilelady61063 жыл бұрын
1,400 square feet is a starter home? That is my perfect sized forever home. Small enough to keep clean easily, but enough space for a kid and a few cats.
@nathanli30243 жыл бұрын
I suppose that also includes yards.
@route66paul3 жыл бұрын
That starter home was home to many 4-6 person families, and sometimes grandma moved in also. Now, people expect 2000 - 3000 sq ft and a 3 car garage for a family of 4, 3 or 4 cars and an RV and/or a boat. Affordable housing should include manufactured homes and parks, but that type of housing is not included at all. When we buy in an area and pay for the space and low density, that is our choice. If there was enough demand for smaller units and lots, it would be built. Maybe not in the old established areas(that are zoned as low density communities) - why people feel that we owe them a spot in a low density area for high density cost is beyond me. There is no free lunch, you pay for what you get.
@LauraVee633 жыл бұрын
Totally agreed.....but I'd like it all for myself! Lol.
@Longtack553 жыл бұрын
Try something smaller for people (not cats.) I have a 2 bedroom 1000 sq ft home and quite comfortable.
@wet_back3 жыл бұрын
That's why people now a day's need to work into their 60's. My grandfather retired in his early 50's on a small pension.
@imp3r1alx2 жыл бұрын
Every buyer want cheap houses, BUT when they finally become house owners.. they want their property to rise in value..
@imp3r1alx2 жыл бұрын
@Blessed&highlyfavored To be fair, there is (almost) no country that have free property tax.. and yet people accept it as it is.. property tax raise is a soft way to ensure only the "...." is able to live in the inner circle of the city.. while the rest live on the 2nd or 3rd outer circle..
@garrettstephens91 Жыл бұрын
Which doesn't make sense because the more that your property is worth, the more you pay in taxes.
@BRZguy5 ай бұрын
The problem is treating property as an investment instead of shelter.
@FRISHR2 жыл бұрын
More zoning laws More parking spaces More car dependency More oil demand More proxy wars More refugees More racism More segregation More zoning laws
@wombatwolf3 жыл бұрын
Hello, I have a master's degree in city planning, and I can confirm that yes to this entire video. One thing: If you support a project, make sure you go to meetings and SHARE YOUR SUPPORT, or send comments about your SUPPORT. Generally, when people support a project, they don't let anyone know. The only people who show up are the people in opposition.
@bookbeing2 жыл бұрын
Public participation in our planning processes is a good topic to bring up.. some of the problem is that our media is preoccupied with celebrity gossip and not really getting us meaningful stories about things going on in our own neighborhoods. If people aren't informed of new residential projects slated for the future how can they respond or comment?
@9xqspx62 жыл бұрын
So you agree that it is all the white people's fault?
@barbarabrooks47472 жыл бұрын
A few big cities are hoarding the best jobs and federal subsidized houses. If there is no affordable housing, then new companies shouof have to pay a big housing tax or go where housing is cheaper. There is plenty of non-arable land that people could live on. Small towns and cities usually have more social mixing among classes.
@sayitaintso75442 жыл бұрын
Here in Georgia neighborhood groups had meetings to separate and rezone part of their community. They nearly rezoned the RR system and the $$$ it brought in from their community. Somehow they took the RR system from the poorer community. It was an all inclusive meeting with code words to keep others uninformed of what wa really happening. One community shouldnt thrive while the other is left in shambles.
@rebeccahabtour2 жыл бұрын
Problem is, too many folk that would support affordability measures just don't have the financial means or leisure time to show up at planning meetings. Who is going to work that last shift, or cover child care, or give them a ride to the meeting? I know it feels impossible but I think it is incumbent upon the government and planning professionals to go out to the communities they know will struggle to show up, build relationships there, hire some community informants, and actively solicit information in a much more accessible way, instead of sitting back and waiting for folk to show up at the planning meetings, because it will inevitably be a non-representative presence that favors the dysfunctional status quo.
@atbattson3 жыл бұрын
This is clearly affecting businesses. The company I work for is loosing younger employees as they are moving to areas far, far away that have more affordable homes. The younger generation just cannot find a place around Boston to buy. Although this predominantly started as an intentional racial divide it has become a class divide as much as anything now.
@tracysample69423 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We don't talk about the class divide enough.
@RoninX333 жыл бұрын
Pretty much racism backfired in a big way.
@ab88173 жыл бұрын
Yup, and then after all those people improve the area that they moved to, in come the rich vultures overpaying and buying up multiple properties, flipping them, etc. There's nowhere for the working class to go anymore. There needs to be cities where public housing is done right, and for-profit real estate grifting is illegal.
@darrennew82112 жыл бұрын
That's the right answer. When rich people can't get poor people to brew their lattes, the zoning rules will change. That said, people don't want nuclear plants etc anywhere close either.
@mrgps43932 жыл бұрын
Whites and homeless are the new blacks
@kingkaga8982 жыл бұрын
Another issue is housing being treated as an investment. The investment is rising in value, but the wages aren't.
@shadowstar86192 жыл бұрын
I'm technically Gen Z and I'M dreading the day I may have to find myself a house of my own. If things aren't fixed fast, I fear I may never even have a new home to move into.
@mr.centrist57892 жыл бұрын
I'm a millennial and I am in the same boat.
@eightfoottallman2 жыл бұрын
me too, and as i'm starting high school and living in an area where prices of basically every kind of housing has risen, i dont even know if i'll ever be able to afford a home of my own. i dont even know if i'll ever even have one in the future, because of the sheer amount of money they seem to average. to have an average house, you'd need an above average salary and money for other house stuff, a car, food costs, and so much more. at this point i'd be grateful if i can have my own apartment and a car or something. i even have family members who are like 25+ that still live in the same family home with their spouse, parent(s), siblings, etc. even when they have their own kids, they have to live with their parents because even with their jobs they simply cannot afford a house. one of my cousins in 28 almost 29, she's married, she works as a nurse, and her husband also makes his own money. but even for them they have been looking for almost 7 years, and haven't seen much hope in buying their own house. i also have a cousin who has a 5 month old, and is married. she also works in healthcare, and makes a good amount. however the prices in our city/ state/ country are so high that all 3 of them, along with her 2 younger brothers, and her parents all have to live in the same apartment because of how expensive housing is.
@SgtBrutalisk2 жыл бұрын
A millennial in Eastern Europe here. I'm about to hit 40 and I've been renting for 3 years, with no prospect of home ownership in sight. The prices people put up for their rent/houses are at least 50% over what the space is realistically worth. I guess I'll own nothing and be happy about it.
@_Siloam_2 жыл бұрын
@Haku Yuki The problem is that you need a permit to build a house, and it is hard to get one. Also aren't people lazier nowadays?
@_Siloam_2 жыл бұрын
@Haku Yuki Exactly
@EwYoureCringe3 жыл бұрын
This is why it’s so important to participate in local elections and local politics. It will literally impact your life way more directly than presidential elections and your vote will count much more!
@jomo44353 жыл бұрын
You said it
@Goyanks283 жыл бұрын
Correct. Finally a smart comment on KZbin.
@lafilletiffa3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for mentioning this :) participating in local elections is super important and it's the only way to get our elected officials to adopt ordinances that effect the change we want to see!
@labelledujour58553 жыл бұрын
👌👏💯
@jackjines34613 жыл бұрын
The way this country has fallen in 7 months and what's happened in the last coupe days no one will be worrying about a seven hundred thousand dollar house We'll be lucky to live in lean two's. As far as generation x you have to work to live and that's a 4 letter word to them. Procreate? Let's hope not. In the 1st place I can't imagine anyone bringing a kid into communism.
@cheeselover6263 жыл бұрын
I went to university in Columbia, MO and started my career there for the first two years. We rented duplexes for all those years and there were plenty of families around us who just bought buildings, lived in one side and rented out the other side. I miss how freaking cheap it was to live there.
@susanholl59943 жыл бұрын
It's still there. Move back if you like it there.
@faridjafari63563 жыл бұрын
I also lived there with my family in the 70's because my father was a university student there, I still remember that beautiful and calm city.
@brianschulz36673 жыл бұрын
Its a SEC town now, 600 akid plus utilities for garbages apartments where they dont even sand the nailhole patches, they just paint over them. 3-4 kids an apt at 600$ eachfor a 500$ apartment value
@brianschulz36673 жыл бұрын
But i do remember the times you spoke of, and they were nice, back then como kids wearing cords and rope and shell necklaces. The new kids are far richer, but so boring, just a walking debit card. Stacked in apts like a wet market
@notnullnotvoid3 жыл бұрын
@@susanholl5994 I live in Columbia. Housing prices are increasing here too, same as everywhere else. We have almost all the same development problems that the rest of the country has - too much R-1 and euclidean zoning, massive lot sizes, winding suburban stroads, bad public transit, bad cycling infrastructure, parking minimums, etc. Perhaps things used to be different, but these days it's gradually turning into just another failing American city.
@monanlu11772 жыл бұрын
Wait parents don't want their kids' teachers to live a reasonable distance from where they teach? ._.
@Porelcaminitoyotellevare Жыл бұрын
Right to housing > Right to profit from property.
@isaacstevens19123 жыл бұрын
Thank you for raising awareness on the reasons why America is facing this problem.
@FaithandNova3 жыл бұрын
This problem has been around for many years only reason why it's now being covered more is because it now effects everyone smh
@shanicejohnson84983 жыл бұрын
America has way too many people. We need to curb immigration AND encourage companies to open offices in cheaper areas.
@glaxxico9073 жыл бұрын
@@shanicejohnson8498 how bout fix zoning laws instead?
@HughReadTheThird3 жыл бұрын
It's basically just the upper middle and upper class chocking everyone else out of housing for their own benefit . Just another way wealth inequality is killing us
@prissweb3 жыл бұрын
@@glaxxico907 their post is full of code words. they just hate " who" is coming in.
@yateswebb3 жыл бұрын
We’ll done. Also, the environmental cost of single family zoning. So high.
@Problematist3 жыл бұрын
Also the health and social cost by not being able to walk to any school, workplace, shop, leading to more malls and less mom & pop shops, leading to more obesity and alienation. The KZbinr Eco Gecko makes great videos focusing entirely on suburbs and alternative ways to have city planning backed by studies.
@krombopulos_michael3 жыл бұрын
The financial cost is huge too. It costs cities way more money to service a single family zoned unit than anything in a terraced house, multiplex or apartment.
@gopackgo40363 жыл бұрын
@@krombopulos_michael exactly single farming lots make no tax income.
@PYTwwe3 жыл бұрын
who cares
@Justin878783 жыл бұрын
The channel "City Beautiful" is great too to check out.
@FRISHR2 жыл бұрын
More zoning laws More parking spaces More car dependency More oil demand More proxy wars
@juratory88762 жыл бұрын
Basically the Domino Effect.
@terencemcnicholas9632 жыл бұрын
Never thought about it like that but you’re right, zoning is the glue that holds the military industrial complex together
@TheAmericanCatholic2 жыл бұрын
@@terencemcnicholas963 invading countries destroys their oil refineries and production and war is far more costly than the oil that we supposedly invade it for. So this is false I agree with the other points except proxy wars for oil.
@toothinm9paste Жыл бұрын
That’s the American spirit
@Kodeb82 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't things just be so much easier if we weren't being held back by a sea of arbitrary laws and bureaucracies?
@elise85391 Жыл бұрын
But I also don’t having the federal government force us into the opposite kinds of arbitrary laws is the answer either.
@Rin-qj7zt3 жыл бұрын
This is true. I work as an electrician. It's not entry level houses we are building most of the time. It's big stuff.
@zeid0122 жыл бұрын
@@AnglersUAE they don't make much profit because of the regulations being absurd
@dbclass40752 жыл бұрын
@jetpowercom Regulations too...also depending on location.
@thomaskn10123 жыл бұрын
Atherton has always been known as a millionaires only community for decades. With almost every Bay Area house being $1 million now, Atherton is now a billionaires only community.
@alicewalton78213 жыл бұрын
And that's the way it should stay. People who can't afford to live there can try their luck in East Palo Alto.
@robinvovolka61973 жыл бұрын
Are you THE Alice Walton?
@LBrisk013 жыл бұрын
You don’t need a billion dollars to afford a million dollar home lol
@alicewalton78213 жыл бұрын
@@robinvovolka6197 Maybe :)
@shaderedemption57982 жыл бұрын
@@LBrisk01 I think the point they were trying to make is that normal sized homes go for around a million, so the larger lots would be in the many millions, hence making them only available to billionaires or similarly wealthy
@kendomyers2 жыл бұрын
Dave Chappelle just blocked affordable housing in his town in Ohio There is a saying in Brazil: money whitens
@kellharris24912 жыл бұрын
F that guy he isn't even funny.
@annieeiloveyou20522 жыл бұрын
40 acres and a mule there still owing. That's around $400,000.00 I would say.
@kendomyers2 жыл бұрын
@@annieeiloveyou2052 Yeah, that would make a big difference to a lot of people, even after being divided up amongst descendants of those who it was promised to and who didnt get it. I fully support that. The vast majority of freed people did not get the reparations they deserved and were entitled to, and its not too late to make good on that debt. Wouldnt make a big difference to Dave, as he was quick to brag about he has a lot of money and isnt afraid to over rule local democracy with it.
@kylerlong082 жыл бұрын
Also has to do with the lack of investment in affordable housing/public housing. Housing is used primarily as an investment rather than the use value of someone living there
@infantebenji2 жыл бұрын
you absolutely right
@LauraVee633 жыл бұрын
I'm a paycheck away from being homeless and it's very frightening as a 58-year old woman who works full time.
@klnj97143 жыл бұрын
I don't know what this country is coming to....
@dbclass40753 жыл бұрын
@@poollife777 ...and pray it is a cooperative type.
@keirfarnum68113 жыл бұрын
@@klnj9714 40 years of neoliberal economic policies pushed by Republicans and conservative blue dog Democrats. It all started with Reagan’s trickledown economics and deregulation; ever since then, we have had economic bubbles one after the other. Trillions of dollars have been extracted from the middle class and those dollars aren’t coming back.
@brittanyhenry74823 жыл бұрын
@@poollife777 u shouldn’t need a roommate to afford to live somewhere
@jatall27973 жыл бұрын
@@brittanyhenry7482 Say that again Brittany…
@JCDenton2012Modder2 жыл бұрын
Gonna be honest here. In the case of California the asinine zoning laws seemed by and large designed to protect: 1) The beauty of the property 2) The price of the property Rather than... you know... something sane like, 'does your city function.'
@stephendallasdraws29292 жыл бұрын
Check out how zoning works in Japan! It's backward in a good way. It is zoned at around 12 levels. Every level takes on the rules of the previous and adds more. Single-family is the tippy top, including all rules from subsequent zones. So you can take your lot and build a single-family house with a duplex out back and a shop out front right next door to a 20-floor building(but there are some rules about blocking sunlight for your neighbors).
@laurenarigo38942 жыл бұрын
Though Southern California can’t really handle any more people with the limited water. Companies need to do more secondary locations in this day and age where it is totally doable.
@stephendallasdraws29292 жыл бұрын
@@laurenarigo3894 Yeah, nobody talks about natural resources when doubling the available housing in an area! I hear similar things from my brother-in-law in Phoenix. But these new, affordable homes wouldn't necessarily add new people to the city. I would think that it's mostly people who are already in the city consuming resources, wanting a place of their own finally. Like extra roommates, homeless people, young adults living with parents, etc.
@musafawundu67182 жыл бұрын
In Japan there isn't any single family exclusive residential zoning and certain types of commercial buildings can be built on every lot. Heavy industrial facilities are essentially the only thing absolutely excluded from residential zones.
@52flyingbicycles2 жыл бұрын
@@laurenarigo3894 residential consumption is less of an issue in California that trying to grow almonds in a freakin’ desert
@ionebae91572 жыл бұрын
For all the people who don't want those teaching their kids to be able to afford a home in their communities, let them try homeschooling and see if that changes their mind about it.
@theultimatereductionist7592 Жыл бұрын
THIS! EXACTLY!
@Waldemarvonanhalt2 жыл бұрын
The scarcity of supply pushing up prices is a dream come true for every boomer that bought a house/houses as speculative investments when they were young. Trying to change zoning laws is a direct challenge to them and they've got the money and time to nag local councils to see things their way.
@donrobertsalazar11253 жыл бұрын
Exclusionary zoning and segregation, hmmm that's the American dream.
@robertshelton37963 жыл бұрын
If welfare people didn't act like trash, people who work wouldn't move away from them.
@akashdeb52013 жыл бұрын
@@robertshelton3796 Yes
@beelzemobabbity3 жыл бұрын
@@robertshelton3796 it’s bad to generalize. So many people who need help are hurt, not just by the people who abuse the system, but by people who turn them away because of the ones who abuse the system. So many times I’ve heard people make jokes about it.
@ronanstephens15973 жыл бұрын
@@robertshelton3796 "welfare people". what's that like social workers or something? why do you hate cps?
@seanlutzke16943 жыл бұрын
@@robertshelton3796 I don't know how you define acting like trash, but you can usually predict the actual crimerate in an area. Look up the Gini index.
@williamhuang83093 жыл бұрын
Teachers can't afford to live in the counties they teach in, so simply drop education services in that county. Now, no one will be complaining about how multi-family zoning "ruins the character of the neighbourhood".
@elultimo1023 жыл бұрын
The residents of such areas are rich enough to enroll their kids in private schools.
@williamhuang83093 жыл бұрын
@@elultimo102 Even though teachers in private schools may get paid better, it might not be enough. Even if they could afford it, the residents of the area might be hostile towards the teachers because of other factors.
@bigbillybadass2 жыл бұрын
@@elultimo102 as they should. let their money dry up and dry up fast as possible no reason to live off public money when you dont want average people around you.
@clairetomes6172 жыл бұрын
Sadly, that is illegal
@williamhuang83092 жыл бұрын
@@clairetomes617 It probably is illegal, but wouldn't it be funny? Or they could do it as a strike.
@kage-fm2 жыл бұрын
i’ll be real - i lived in a dense neighborhood with insufficient parking for 8 years, and circling around for half an hour looking for parking every evening, and getting parking tickets any time you don’t move your car fast enough gets old pretty fast. i don’t think the solution is car-dependent dense neighborhoods with no parking: folks either need parking or ideally public transportation.
@9xqspx62 жыл бұрын
From all the taxes collected from the people, local governments should build underground parking and parking houses to solve these issues. But they won't...
@ultragarrison Жыл бұрын
multi-storey carpark is your answer buddy
@algotkristoffersson15 Жыл бұрын
In a dense neighborhood you need neither of those things, you can just, WALK to the store like a reasonable person.
@aahmed29 Жыл бұрын
The thing is politicians care more about their own party than their country. That's the root of 90% of all the problems.
@Mockduck20202 ай бұрын
Well, as this video explains, one party doesn’t care about anyone that has trouble paying rent.
@RickRobinCagnaan3 жыл бұрын
An epidemic of homeless people? Now that's been blamed on one thing: lack of affordable housing. Another thing blamed for homelessness could be redlining, and worse, zoning.
@JenkemSuperfan3 жыл бұрын
Did you watch the video?
@noahsmith99893 жыл бұрын
ok? why did u just write what happened in the video
@ShadNex3 жыл бұрын
Redlining in 2021?
@cowboyflipflopped3 жыл бұрын
Arm the homeless.
@whyaminotoriginal3 жыл бұрын
@@ShadNex it never ended....
@deego2373 жыл бұрын
They need to design cities and villages for people not for cars. Sadly this is endemic in North America, what the solution they have for climate change? Change from oil to ev but keep the cars.
@ACasualCustomer3 жыл бұрын
A car-less city with only trains underground in my dreams. Only bikes and scooters allowed
@brijekavervix73403 жыл бұрын
@@ACasualCustomer you'd still need trams/buses as well for the intermediary public transport
@edwardcardozo83253 жыл бұрын
B-but muh freedom!😭
@unliving_ball_of_gas3 жыл бұрын
@@ACasualCustomer Basically Singapore
@davidhollenshead48923 жыл бұрын
@@ACasualCustomer Then you are excluded the disabled, as a car is also a mobility device for us...
@caressmonet2 жыл бұрын
America is such a massive failure in so many ways. My goodness.
@pwu81942 жыл бұрын
The easiest way to make houses affordable is to tax second/third home with 20% property tax. Too many scalpers buying properties, then sell them at either $100K above what they paid yesterday or double what they paid yesterday.
@byfrax23713 жыл бұрын
Imagine banning multi-family housing aka the only housing that will keep your city afloat
@somethingaboutQwerty3 жыл бұрын
These people are called Nimby’s
@Joel-ew1zm2 жыл бұрын
NYC built up before zoning laws and to an extent solved this problem organically by building multi story apartment buildings and rowhouses to increase density. The problem with zoning is that it prohibits natural economic principles from operating to solve the supply gap.
@nickspeelman91742 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Markets are really bad at some things: like providing affordable health care and education. But very, very good at other things: like providing affordable housing. Americans are just terrible at identifying which is which.
@botchamaniajeezus2 жыл бұрын
There is no such thing as "natural economic principles"
@monanlu11772 жыл бұрын
This is SUCH an underrated comment!
@shalyfemusic2 жыл бұрын
@@botchamaniajeezus there is though ever heard of supply and demand
@shalyfemusic2 жыл бұрын
@@nickspeelman9174 Markets are actually good at producing affordable healtcare and education. America's healtcare market is heavily restricted and regulated by the government. If you want affordable high quality healtcare the best option for you is the market. Obviously it would not be free.
@LucidDreamer543212 жыл бұрын
Why is a small piece of land called a "lot"? Shouldn't it be called a "little"?
@gurpreetbhamra97522 жыл бұрын
👏
@JosephJujnovich2 жыл бұрын
It took me 8 minutes to figure out the wooden usb sticks were actually meant to represent people.
@joela.40583 жыл бұрын
Here’s the kicker too: the same people who want their communities to be large single family homes are the ones that own the denser residences and smaller homes. It’s in their best interest to keep this trend in place, they keep their wealthy and lightly populated suburbs and also make money off of skyrocketing property values/rents.
@ButWhyMe...2 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@musafawundu67182 жыл бұрын
Well, I wouldn't be surprised about this.
@Kaine00733 жыл бұрын
The town i live in proposed affordable housing for nurses, yes nurses, to live closer to the hospital. It was shot down for the same reasons mentioned in this video
@edercow633 жыл бұрын
Exclusively zoning for single home family is bad for cities ?
@ridleyscott52343 жыл бұрын
@@edercow63 do you think hospitals are only built in cities?
@sweetkittykat20003 жыл бұрын
@@edercow63 I'm sure it applies to whatever housing they were proposing to build. Might have been single family homes, duplexes, maybe apartments. Whatever it was, there was probably some argument made about how it wasn't good for the type of community they have. People will find reason to complain about anything.
@ricseeds48353 жыл бұрын
Segregation is alive and well and it's along net worth lines. It's along racial lines too, but also net worth
@route66paul3 жыл бұрын
Nurses make good money, why should they be subsidized? If it is a problem, maybe the hospital can build some homes for them.
@The_NJG2 жыл бұрын
I’d rather buy a piece of land and build a house myself with my bare hands at this point.
@michaelprez38112 жыл бұрын
You literally can nothing is stopping you, provided you have the money and if it's on wheels it technically counts as a mobile home so you can avoid laws the dictate square footage that way to keep the price of your project down
@laurice80562 жыл бұрын
This explains why some cities are so over crowded with homeless people.
@charlesandrecuadra85693 жыл бұрын
Soon, you will see a person who earns 10k dollars a month but still homeless.
@gavindeng83593 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@TvGunslingeRvT3 жыл бұрын
Huh, u can buy a decent house with 40k-50k in third world
@JRPGGUY3 жыл бұрын
That's probably already happening
@RetractedPieces3 жыл бұрын
@@TvGunslingeRvT but can you get a job for 10k dollar a month in that country?
@kickballfever3 жыл бұрын
There's another documentary about people making 6 figures and still living paycheck to paycheck, make of that what you will.
@TheLikeys3 жыл бұрын
This single family zoning has much wider impacts than just the cost of buying.. also it creates un-walkable city’s which are inefficient and force everyone into car ownership.. so it’s making the city worse except for the rich (and even them, because of the non innovative city design) So suburban neighborhoods are ok if they are planned in moderate quantities. But cities which rely solely on single family zoning make US cities unpleasant to live in...
@LuneFromage3 жыл бұрын
Yes, this is an excellent point! It makes cities less livable when they are so car-centric and makes the planet less livable too. The United States needs to cut our carbon emissions and we're not going to do it if we don't take some pretty big measures to make it so that people have quick, reliable alternatives to driving. I like that some cities are banning cars in the city center, investing in public transportation, and aiming to become more dense. Cities in Europe have great public transport, are densely populated, and are much more beautiful and livable than in the United States. I bike everywhere and I was hit by a car due to poor infrastructure for anyone who's not driving. I think we should invest, as a country, in clean, nice public housing in densely populated urban centers for whoever needs it. Residents would just pay for upkeep and utilities. I think doing so would create the more walkable, livable cities you mentioned, help alleviate poverty, and also help eliminate cars and lower carbon emissions.
@route66paul3 жыл бұрын
@@LuneFromage We have cut our carbon emissions. The problem is the up and coming countries that are manufacturing the cheap goods we buy are building coal plants at a huge rate. If we were serious, we would not buy anything that was manufactured in those ways, but that won't happen. This is what the one world government types, the corporations want, a work force that will do anything for starvation wages - they are keeping the working class down in the US and increasing carbon emissions in manufacturing and transportation, since it is cheaper to use 3rd world workers and transport goods halfway around the world, rather than make it locally.
@nathanli30243 жыл бұрын
@@route66paul up and coming countries did our pollution for us so we can cut our carbon emissions... But for the sake of argument let's just grant you the point that the up-and-coming countries pollute only for their own interest. If you look at per-capita pollution across the world, no country pollutes more than Canada, the US, and Japan(their carbon is ok amongst OECD but their plastic pollution is stupidly high).
@nathanli30243 жыл бұрын
@@route66paul The US doesn't have enough skilled worker like Germany to sustain a working-class economic for the developing world.
@route66paul3 жыл бұрын
@@nathanli3024 I totally agree with you. We should be on top of it, bottles and cans, other plastic waste should be recycled and there should be stricter laws. The corprcrats in the NWO want everyone to be the same. They are playing the poor of one country against another. We had protective tariffs to protect those industries and their workers from these practices. A certain amount of this manufacturing needs to be done stateside for national security. We do not want to be held captive by other powers without being able to mill cloth, make clothing, widgets, etc. They have used the environmentalists to justify their leaving our country and setting up manufacturing elsewhere. This is Nixon's revenge, by breaking bread with CCP officials. This has weakened our country along with turning a blind eye to illegal aliens. Yes, it is cheaper to have a gardener, but we are paying our taxes to support the infrastructure that benefits them(in some cases, much more than it does legal citizens.
@zpetar2 ай бұрын
We got this problem when buying house became viewed more as investment than as buying home.
@msoda85162 жыл бұрын
America suffers from a not in my backyard problem. The answer is mixed type housing but towns don't zone for that type of housing. Towns then try to stop movements that make houses affordable like tiny houses.
@tomseiple32802 жыл бұрын
This hits on one of the key elements of the housing crisis, but another that it doesn't is the mass commodification of housing across the country. Many single family homes are being bought up by individual investors or large groups, like banks, and being flipped for profit - effectively removing a lot of supply from the market, or dramatically reducing the number of fixer-uppers out on the market. The conversion of housing to a mass-market, consumer asset to be leveraged for cash has also placed buyers in a weird place where sellers are treating homes like an elastic good, like an Xbox, while buyers are treating it like an inelastic good, such as food. That gives all of the bargaining power to the seller and discourages them from selling for a low or fair price.
@DelilahZoe2 жыл бұрын
ABSOLUTELY. Well said.
@guysumpthin29742 жыл бұрын
Great Wisdom
@ProHumanity2 жыл бұрын
Well said! Precisely why we need to tear down these terrible government regulations exposed by the video. We need MORE housing construction to defeat the value of investors buying up homes. Those investors are predicting we'll be unable to defeat the terrible government policies causing this problem, and if we don't the investor's return on investment vanishes.
@JMcMillen2 жыл бұрын
It's not just the house flippers, but the ones that buy them and turn them into rental investment properties that are also keeping them off the market. I think that's why some places increased the minimum size of new house construction. By making the homes bigger and more expensive it would be more costly for someone to try and buy one as a rental investment property.
@ProHumanity2 жыл бұрын
Well, we need more housing of all types, not just big and expensive. That's the path to undermining the companies buying homes as investments. Simply build more, reduce demand, bring prices down.
@skybluskyblueify3 жыл бұрын
Most rich people dont like seeing homeless people. They need to allow for starter homes or duplex-like housing to reduce the number of people living in the street or cars. I guess they'd rather see homeless people than lose rental income or have the value of their home/s to decrease. They are not really forward-thinking at all.
@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but the whole point is that regulations need to come into play. People need to vote for better mayor's and legislators. Waiting for rich people to act against their interests is not gonna cut it. And most real estate developers could make a lot of money building affordable rental properties. They can't because policies forbid them to do so. That was the whole point of the videi
@KRYMauL3 жыл бұрын
Personally I don't like seeing homeless people, but my idea is that we should do things like Mobile Loaves and Fishes' Community First Village in Austin, TX. Basically you make mobile home or Tiny home parks at the edge of town and have a private trade school that allows the people to learn a new skill then slowly have to pay back the company as they move out.
@tkam543 жыл бұрын
@Launch With Fox - define self made. Its hard to imagine someone getting extremely wealthy with no friends, family, or mentors. Also....plenty of people act against their self interest....they are called poor Republicans.
@tkam543 жыл бұрын
@Launch With Fox - do you really believe not inheriting money makes you self made? If your parents and/or friends are well off and lend you money to start a business or help you qualify for loan or lend you their ivy league skills and connections or all of the above, I wouldnt call them self made. I think it can be damaging to epsouse a hardwork=success mantra in America as it implies those that struggle dont work hard or arent smart when it much more nuicasued then hardwork = success/wealth
@Addlibs3 жыл бұрын
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Regulatons need to come into play? Regulations are the very reason these policies which forbid developers from making affordable properties exist. We need less regulations. If you let developers build wherever they want with whatever parking options they want to provide, you'll end up with more diversity in housing options. Those who want parking will pay more, thus developers would be incentivized to add parking to increase profit, or reducing parking to build more housing to increase profit.
@maurixe27242 жыл бұрын
Im from South America and it makes me sick to see how badly worker class-poor people live in America. At least here in my country anyone can build on really remote areas and get some cheap healthcare while American people are forced to live on the streets and hope to not get sick or else they’re dammed.
@catie74662 жыл бұрын
it's honestly horrible. i developed an autoimmune disease two years ago when i was 19 and the late diagnosis/inaccessible treatment lead to three more chronic illnesses. theres no place in the US for young disabled people. the hustle culture, low pay, high medical bills are killing me. my diseases arent deadly if i can get proper rest and treatment but i honestly dont expect to live past 40. theyre literally working us to death here.
@cagriozkan19362 жыл бұрын
@@catie7466 go to europe or maybe some develloping countries where probably you will be taken care of beter. ASAP.
@michellpolicarpio2 жыл бұрын
Si eres sudamericano, en cualquier parte de este subcontinente sin excepción alguna se vive totalmente peor que en EEUU. Decir que en todo o algun país de sudamericana la vivienda es accesible es MENTIRA y la sanidad pública en TODOS los países de América del Sur es un ASCO, un robo y corrupción. La sanidad pública en Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Peru y demás países es peor que en EEUU (y si, aunque los medios lo oculten, en EEUU si existe la cobertura pública de sanidad)
@guilhermetavares47052 жыл бұрын
This is the problem of a country that builds its cities for cars and still believes that the right way to live is in a low-density suburb. Americans have created their own housing problems.
@Feanor11692 жыл бұрын
We value our freedom and don't want to live like sardines packed in a can. Do you realize the vast criminal element in most US cities that people are trying to escape?
@mardiffv.87752 жыл бұрын
@@Feanor1169 True, I do not want to live in ghetto full of crime too. But still most family houses in the Netherlands are row houses of 100 to 120 square meters/ 1100 to 1400 square feet. The Dutch live in expensive small houses because of high density; small country (Vermont seize) and nearly 18 milion people living in it.
@Feanor11692 жыл бұрын
@@mardiffv.8775 Is seems strange then that, despite the populations density of the Netherlands, the EU insists on importing millions of immigrants into these tight spaces. Almost like they want to abolish the Dutch (and French, and English...) people?
@mardiffv.87752 жыл бұрын
@@Feanor1169 I agree that the EU policy is madness. The Dutch lack the housing for those immigrants. So the Dutch government gives away social housing to the asylem seekers and the Dutch have wait 10 years. The plan to give shelter to refugee in their own region is never considered.
@ash39722 жыл бұрын
@@Feanor1169 gringoness intensifies*
@demon108hunter63 жыл бұрын
I like these type of videos it shows to me as a European about the struggles of America’s system Edit: before you go batter me with more comments I did not say that this is only a problem in America I’m just saying that (no offence)there’s a lot of flaws in America’s system
@LucaBonato3 жыл бұрын
And their houses are built with cardboard and wood 🙈
@ThisisBarris3 жыл бұрын
Europe is no better. A lot of ridiculous zoning laws and building regulations. Hence why major European cities are unaffordable.
@RBuckminsterFuller3 жыл бұрын
You make it sound like this type of problem is unique to the US. Young people can't afford to buy houses anywhere, including in Europe.
@LucaBonato3 жыл бұрын
@@RBuckminsterFuller a single house probably, a small apartment yes. In suburbs area of course
@pranshuanandvatsa90973 жыл бұрын
He has only increased price and started was in Afghanistan their people are so powerful that they can even chew Biden and America's people body with their teeth only
@bktherullaaa3 жыл бұрын
They call it the American dream because you only have it when you’re asleep
@X2LR83 жыл бұрын
Ironically George Carlin achieved the American Dream.
@mandeep3.143 жыл бұрын
Good one
@alter44423 жыл бұрын
Stolen comment
@bktherullaaa3 жыл бұрын
Yes it is a stolen comment. I reused it because I thought it was funny
@gerishsingh463 жыл бұрын
I dont know why it matters to people
@Mj-kb6ig2 жыл бұрын
I don't believe the supply data, and someone should break that down. Leading up to 08, that bubble was created by too much supply and unsustainable prices. So the question is, after further supply was released after the crash, and a ton of people went to foreclosure, how much supply was there for the 3 to 4 year period, before we got back into a sellers market. Sure, we built less homes, but I distinctly remember that reports were we didn't have to build more housing. What happen to all the excess supply after the crash? The reason we hadn't built, was because something/someone gobbled up what was left.
@Waldemarvonanhalt2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the USA: Car-dependent hellscape.
@bachpham68623 жыл бұрын
To be honest, this is coming from a country that deemed black neighborhoods as being undesirable, and would not grant mortgages (redlining).
@teresathomley37033 жыл бұрын
Bach pham Exactly.
@supermananimationsstudios85193 жыл бұрын
Race card
@railroadforest303 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@brumhelldah9173 жыл бұрын
@@supermananimationsstudios8519 history book
@TH-eb7ob3 жыл бұрын
@@supermananimationsstudios8519 sadly this is not the "race card", those are facts you can find in any history book :(
@tayzonday3 жыл бұрын
Changing zoning laws is easy. Just pass federal law that isn’t advised by the National Association of Realtors. In other words: 1) Tax vacant units to discourage hoarding with above-market pricing 2) Require open/public bidding on all property transactions (auctions) 3) Ban mortgage terms that impose penalties for re-sale or rental below specified prices 4) Restrict the unlimited infusions of foreign capital that help keep hosing prices higher than locals can afford
@FaithandNova3 жыл бұрын
Of course it's easy, they don't want to
@taoliu39493 жыл бұрын
None of your proposals solves the issue with zoning. Zoning restrictions are the root cause of the constricted housing supply. Reform zoning to allow sufficient housing to be built to match demand and watch housing prices drop. The primary issue of zoning reform in the US is that its done at a very local level (county, city, town) which has a huge incentive to keep others out and restrict supply to increase property values. This is why certain states like California are finally putting its foot down and forcing local governments to zone for sufficient capacity to match job/population growth. Cities such as Beverly Hills and Santa Monica's population has essentially stayed the same for the past 50 years despite the overall population/job growth in the region. It's not a surprise why housing costs has skyrocketed.
@taoliu39493 жыл бұрын
@@andrewp5171 That's so untrue. Open/public bidding means the prices end up being as close to its market value as possible. Market value goes up when your supply doesn't match demand, which is due to arbitrary restrictions on housing construction, eg. Zoning. It is basic market supply/demand. If you don't allow supply to meet demand, prices are going to increase.
@tayzonday3 жыл бұрын
@@taoliu3949 “The primary issue of Zoning reform in the US is that it’s done at a very local level” - Thank you for agreeing with me that the legislative jurisdiction I proposed - Congress - is the logical venue to reform zoning. Zoning is just one of many factors that inflate housing prices on the local level. Other causes include: 1) Prosperity-gerrymandered incorporation (e.g. how Los Angeles incorporates the Port Of Los Angeles to evacuate tax wealth from adjacent residents, how Chicago doss the same with O’Hare airport) 2) Failing to incorporate service employment into representative government, so that police, fire, social work and other vocations that have disproportionate per-capita need in divested areas also serve to evacuate public investment wealth from those areas 3) Allowing local schools to be funded through property tax (upheld by US Supreme Court as constitutional in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 1973). Congress could easily legislate this away and mandate prosperity-neutral funding, which would also be constitutional.
@R.-.3 жыл бұрын
"Require open/public bidding on all property transactions" This favours wealthy incomers over the local population of the area, forcing people who grew up in the area to leave or become homeless. The restriction should be that wealthy incomers can't buy an existing property if a local person needs it. This would force incomers to build new houses which would correct the supply problem.
@YT_C92 жыл бұрын
Shall I say this is the biggest drawback of capitalism? Too much power in the hands of rich.
@Clintsessentials2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@harmony32792 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@juliav.mcclelland24152 жыл бұрын
Wow. You got that from this? It's literally government regulation and interference forbidding real estate agents, developers, builders, landlords, sellers, etc. from creating cheaper homes for people with smaller budgets. Okay, you can make a case that it's rich people buying policy makers' votes to pass such laws, but in a society where capitalists were free to conduct business as they please (honestly, with no force, fraud, or coercion) and the government was only allowed to interfere to protect rights from being violated or people and property from being harmed, not to regulate and forbid and pass laws that cause harmful effects because they "know better" or to achieve some allegedly noble goal (whether a selfish goal in actuality or not), this problem would not exist. If the NIMBYs were forbidden to be rich, well, I don't see how that would solve the problem. The money redistributed to people wouldn't be enough to let everyone afford such homes. Solving the problem by forbidding people from being rich would require a drastic change and ripple effects that are unnecessary -- just take away the government's freedom to restrict freedoms unnecessarily, like the freedom to build smaller, cheaper homes, and the problem is solved without turning the entire economic system upside down. I'm sorry, but the problem is literally government overreach, not the freedom to be wealthy.
@timmyrd96105 ай бұрын
I feel confident most of the people in these comments don’t own a single-family home.
@Froozerk5673 жыл бұрын
As a San Jose resident, this has been one of the most frustrating parts of living here. People in their mid-20s can't afford to move out of their parents homes. Everybody is stuck in limbo. Even though there has been the most building I have seen in my life, prices continue to go up. It seems that nothing effective is being done to combat the problem.
@jordicarvajal28343 жыл бұрын
This is why Congress needs to pass the For The People Act which will get big money out of politics.
@wolfmayner62742 жыл бұрын
There are certainly people in their 20's who can afford to move out of their parent's home. The twist is that the only ones who can are the ones moving into their rich parent's second or third home, which I guess really doesn't count, does it?
@opiniononion3 жыл бұрын
There must be some huge financial benefits for some people that things never change
@jooot_68503 жыл бұрын
Oy vey
@sguploads96013 жыл бұрын
the benefit is huge - you can buy lot - and build 7 stories apartment there - cost of land will be about 5% inside these apartments. Also public transportation finally will start to make sense.
@MrQuantumInc3 жыл бұрын
Yes but it isn't really a 99% vs 1% fight. More space for low income neighborhoods means less space for high income neighborhoods. The privilege of living in a high income neighborhood would become even more expensive, which would annoy the rich and move many middle class people out of high income neighborhoods and into low income. That's what people mean when they say they want to live in a "nice" neighborhood, the area where the socioeconomic class is slightly above you. The 1% will be able to afford suburbia no matter what, but there are a lot of middle class people who like to mingle with higher class people but are afraid of lower class people.
@jooot_68503 жыл бұрын
@@MrQuantumInc Too bad. One struggle: if you're not the 1%, you are working class
@johncoll44563 жыл бұрын
Ya think???
@richdemanowski2575 Жыл бұрын
It doesn't help that the politicians don't have any real incentive to zone for affordable housing. The artificially inflated land and home prices mean higher property tax revenues for the political class to spend.
@elcapitan6126 Жыл бұрын
its moreso the guaranteed capital gains and low capital gains taxes for their constituents. the incentives are massively in favour of unaffordability
@thepatriotsfan71272 жыл бұрын
I was homeless from August 15, 2021 to March 2nd of this year. I was hopping from hotel to hotel, I stayed at 4 hotels from that duration. And let me tell you, the fear of "Where will I end up by next week" will take a toll on you. The state of Rhode Island has the most expensive rent in the Northeastern US, outnumbering NY at times. Cheapest rent would start at $1,500 to $2,000 or more for a one bedroom. And that's not including application fees, security deposits etc.
@Eserr7856 Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear you were homeless. How are you doing now?
@RealDexterMidnight Жыл бұрын
You see ehy alot of people are building small homes and living in campers And where I live in a where dosen't allow you to build a small home on your own property
@Aripoma3 жыл бұрын
Atherton, ca has the most expensive zip code in the US but it’s still a relatively unknown city. I believe mark zuckerberg and other CEO’s have a house there.
@OniPutItOn3 жыл бұрын
nah it’s the second.. Fisher Island (which is KINDA basically Miami Beach) is the top 33109
@Adam-xf3ko3 жыл бұрын
It's a really weird neighborhood. I went there once to the home of a professional athlete and while it was obviously very wealthy it seemed weird that it was that wealthy. I think it's because you don't see more of the houses from the street.
@razyice3 жыл бұрын
Mark Zuckerberg lives in Palo Alto not Atherton but yes a lot of very rich people live in Atherton.
@PatrickAndFriendsPRO3 жыл бұрын
I looked at it on the google satellite maps and street view and I am absolutely disgusted
@alonknaan45363 жыл бұрын
She mispronounced the name of the city! Atherton is pronounced with a soft th sound as in "thing" (symbol: θ)
@zestylobstertail42772 жыл бұрын
price of houses skyrocketing and they're still made of matchsticks and cardboard
@paulyearley10842 жыл бұрын
New houses are seriously garbage construction. It's amazing. My 1940-built house has old-house problems, for sure (being connected to century old water and sewer lines is... not great), but it was well-made (and competently remodeled in the last few years, fwiw).
@jarheadmstr2 жыл бұрын
@@paulyearley1084 same man
@Lucas-vd2gx2 жыл бұрын
Canada has the same issue
@rainbomg2 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, San Jose and San Francisco are like the only 2 places where housing costs haven’t gone up this year, they’ve gone down. I live in TN. Our prices have gone up 30%. I’m actually currently having my rent doubled by someone from California who just bought my building with his investment company, he’s promising 18% returns so yay for them
@coopergates9680 Жыл бұрын
Do you live in an area people are eager to move to?
@rainbomg Жыл бұрын
@@coopergates9680 yes, I live in the smoky mountains. its beautiful here. I know a lot of people vacation here. we weren't hit as hard as Nashville was, but it has still been brutal.
@coopergates9680 Жыл бұрын
@@rainbomg Crossville is one I wrote down, as it wouldn't be as much of a steam bath in summer. How's Bristol?
@TheLiamster Жыл бұрын
The US should just get rid of zoning laws entirely