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Solutions to address the affordability crisis.

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From 2001 to 2024, renter incomes rose 9 percent in real terms while rents jumped 30 percent, widening the affordability gap.

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies ↗ · 2001-2024

Do rents feel like they are rising much faster than your wage?

— Works in construction— Lifelong progressive— Caregiver

This should not be the case in a country with this billionaire class. Pay should have to be a minimum of what the highest paid employee gets

↳ start it@makeitbetter

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— Small-business owner— Retiree— 50's parent with college aged children

Do you think corporations are the problem in the housing market? I believe there are solutions if we break out of traditional realtor deals and form contracts and create rental agreements between individual homeowners and long term renters. What do you think?

↳ start it@dazedandconfused

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