TLDR: Gangs are driving the housing prices up.
Our nation finds it’s self in an extraordinary time of doubt and uncertainty. That my friends is by design. Housing prices are high because the cost of not just materials, but labor, and fuel as well. There are a lot of other factors that play into this hand, I would like to try and focus on the things that we as a nation can effect. Material costs started to rise when we (the people) decided that we would like to charge for “saving our forests.” I am not a scientist in this field by any means but, it would seem the less trees we cut down the bigger the forest fires get, thereby reducing the amount of usable lumber to build new homes. I also understand that businesses that go unchecked tend to not be self governing. So safety and deforestation become an issue. And we can go ahead and address the elephant in the room now. If we build more houses than Americans we will need immigrants to fill them. It is strange to have to say, but it would seem that America was built by and for immigrants. Until we get to the generations that forget that their families were immigrants at some point as well.
The most natural beauty of this great nation are all the communities that have sprung up and supported each other. The wealthy are not out to get you, they just don’t care about you. Here’s another way of looking at it from the other side. If you live somewhere like Detroit where there are so many problems that houses have been abandoned. Things that scared other people away are the only things keeping those houses in an affordable range for the community members (seems like a trap). For the banks that own those homes it doesn’t make sense to build homes in better communities until they get their return from the ghettos that they tried to buyout. If you were wondering what happened to the majority of housing crash money after the fact. I think it was stored in these homes to be claimed for a loss at a later date. That’s why there isn’t a push to “clean it up,” from either end. It’s only going to take a few people to change that game if they can get their cash into the system without being flagged. If I was a mineral investor looking for corrosive materials to mine I think I would target areas with plumbing and water issues. Adding to that, I think the banks see one or two more life cycle in Detroit (and some similar cities) then it gets dozed and turned into a strip mine (probably lithium, sulfur, or soluble potash). On an aside I think gang violence plays into the housing prices almost as much as all the costs combined because most people are not wanting to move into an area with daily shootings and the like. Yet as stated above, there are abandoned houses across the nation due in part to this pariah that plagues our nation. Reducing gang violence would reduce housing prices by freeing up homes in areas previously considered unlivable by most in a more meaningful way than baseline infrastructure ever could.
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