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(DIR) Post #Al56NuyowCGdRmRnBA by Daojoan@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T03:53:02Z
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If anyone’s wondering what the dude who sang “chocolate rain” is up to these days, he’s dropping absolute bangers about housing and he’s fucking right
(DIR) Post #Al5kfjhPc9Pnq6M7CC by Alon@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T12:15:21Z
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@RedOct Not "can" but "required to," because not everyone can get the required credit or even wants to tether themselves to one risky asset. In practice, taxes on landlords that are not levied on homeowners exist (for example, the American mortgage tax credit, or differential property tax rates, or capital gains taxes exemptions), and what they do in practice is redistribute wealth to homeowners from renters and not so much from commercial landlords.
(DIR) Post #Al5kfkOJ2fj5z8QN3Q by pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
2024-08-18T12:47:58.635903Z
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@Alon @RedOct you'd think that proposing "let's make it impossible to rent a flat and let's force everyone to buy one so they have somewhere to live" would be seen as absolutely ridiculous and not a banger, but here we are
(DIR) Post #Al63gaTNIlOKduuR72 by Alon@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T13:19:58Z
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@feld @pony @RedOct American building codes are generally terrible; note that this problem doesn't exist in German or Nordic Passivhaus construction. Then there's the fenestration - American buildings love to use slide windows, which are harder to insulate than tilt-and-turn, but then one of the people in our program lives in a modern New York condo with tilt-and-turn windows and tells me they're not as well-insulated as German ones, for reasons neither of us knows.
(DIR) Post #Al63gbVBTWQtpolOZU by Alon@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T13:22:23Z
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@feld @pony @RedOct The poor insulation then makes city living less desirable because street noise filters into the buildings; every time I visit New York I have to deal with way worse noise than I have at home with the windows closed, and I live next to an elevated train in an extremely touristy area. But *none* of this gets resolved through taxing landlords (who then pass the tax on to the renters) - the US and Canada need to Europeanize their building codes.
(DIR) Post #Al63gbkmXWuScC3qsq by DiegoBeghin@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T15:46:04Z
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@Alon @feld @pony @RedOct Yeah, and let me add that making homes "breathe" through cracks in the walls is a very non-ideal solution for ventilation. Mould and other nasties can grow in such cracks, the air you're getting isn't high quality.Much better to have proper mechanical ventilation, we have the technology to exchange air without exchanging heat
(DIR) Post #Al659NQqxv1mYA1PBQ by Jestbill@mastodon.world
2024-08-18T16:21:40Z
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@pony Missing the key point that it is corporations buying large numbers of units that is at issue, not individual landlords with a few units to rent.
(DIR) Post #Al659OK9eJGPJftZNg by pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz
2024-08-18T16:37:25.789289Z
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@Jestbill i am not missing it, i am just ignoring it because it's stupid
(DIR) Post #Al73pVNbnigmbyQNcW by AzureArmageddon@mastodon.online
2024-08-18T08:47:52Z
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@Daojoan All these years I've just been seeing him in random YouTube comments sections being unrelentingly based.
(DIR) Post #Al73pXzG6hzghK3TaC by radicalresilience@todon.nl
2024-08-18T08:56:59Z
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@Daojoan please don't forget #AltText -especially as so much of the information is in the text in the image
(DIR) Post #Al73pZVuQnhnQsL476 by akareilly@hachyderm.io
2024-08-18T09:31:13Z
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@Daojoan With alt text
(DIR) Post #Al74RuHDgPKKpekOjA by vic@seal.cafe
2024-08-19T04:04:21.811616Z
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@akareilly @Daojoan Whoa, that's a blast from the past.Never thought I'd hear about Chocolate Rain guy again.
(DIR) Post #Al74ZxuU3gEQPvxIhs by techtrav@fosstodon.org
2024-08-18T12:11:48Z
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@Daojoan this is really thought-provoking. all my life, I've been a die-hard "limited government" kind of guy. this gives me a peek into the idea that "the other side" might have a point. thanks for sharing.
(DIR) Post #Al7OSS8PnXEkvMAPLM by Roundcat@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T13:42:27Z
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@Daojoan “Mama economy” was my favorite song of his, and that was about the 2010s economy.
(DIR) Post #Al7P13ry0XCBnmyZe4 by argv_minus_one@mstdn.party
2024-08-18T15:49:11Z
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@Daojoan And everybody thinks Trump is going to fix this? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
(DIR) Post #Al7P14imq9RkRbgkyW by clacke@libranet.de
2024-08-19T07:51:34Z
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@argv_minus_one @Daojoan Everyone? I sure hope not!I didn't look at the details, but it sounded to me like he wanted to recreate the subprime mortgage crisis.
(DIR) Post #Al8vxTXE8KGLtC8IBk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-20T01:38:30Z
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@Daojoan> he’s dropping absolute bangers about housingReminds me of whole neighbourhoods getting demolished after the GFC. In a desperate attempt to reinflate the housing bubble, and keep prices artificially high, by reducing supply. Like the house hoarding the “chocolate rain” dude talks about, this is absurd. It's no way to run an economy, and the only people who benefit are the financialist aristocracy and their running dogs.
(DIR) Post #Al8w1IUx6qGSoltK2y by hishnash@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T04:24:17Z
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@Daojoan yer we have the same issues in NZ as well. I woud also limit short term rental (airBNB) to only permit if the freehold title owners live on sight and are onsite during the stay. (Eg a farm can have an airBnB cabin but a townhouse or apartment in a city can’t be an AirBNB, a room within a home can be though)