I know I’m supposed to want it to keep going up as a wealth generator or whatever.

But like… I wouldn’t be able to afford the monthly payments if I bought my house right now and it’s scary. Also none of my friends are buying homes, none of them are even renting full places. Just like renting rooms.

So what are your feelings home owners of lemmy?

  • Seraph@kbin.social
    2·
    9 months ago

    What’s your opinion of the fall out of the commercial real estate crash due to more WFH and the other effects? Certainly there is more commercial real estate than ever before to the point some is being rezoned due to lack of demand.

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Mostly just a matter of stalling until the housing crisis gets bad enough that people want to remove those pesky laws about living spaces needing windows and proper insulation and so forth. Then we’ll see retrofitting

      • Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        As to those “pesky laws”. . .

        The building codes are written in blood. Most things that are required in construction are the basic amount of safety required. They are not that restrictive.