return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 10 months ago‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trendmoneywise.comexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1226arrow-down19
arrow-up1217arrow-down1external-link‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trendmoneywise.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square91fedilink
minus-squarePeaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·10 months agothe people complaining they can’t buy a house aren’t the unhoused crowd to begin with.
minus-squareANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoIf it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
minus-squarePeaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’s true but it doesn’t change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn’t an unhoused person.
minus-squareANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoThat’s true, but that person wasn’t me. I wasn’t defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.
the people complaining they can’t buy a house aren’t the unhoused crowd to begin with.
If it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
That’s true but it doesn’t change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn’t an unhoused person.
That’s true, but that person wasn’t me.
I wasn’t defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.