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In reply to the discussion: A solution to affordable housing... that Americans just don't seem to like. [View all]ret5hd
(20,491 posts)to buy/rent a 2000-4000 sf single family home with a golden retriever, 2.3 children, a pristine lawn (with sprinkler system), wonderful accepting neighbors, functioning streetlights, no-lead pipes, good schools, double/triple glazed windows, and proper insulation.
And they dont have the option to buy/rent single family houses that are substandard in all those respects because they are broke. They are poor. Their wallets are empty. Their dollars are pining for the fjords. AND much of the once affordable housing has been bought up by funds intent on squeezing every drop of blood, sweat, and tears from these dried shriveled wallets.
Many are already homeless. Many want someplace clean, safe, and reasonably priced to raise a family. To retire alone. To get a restart on a life interrupted by abuse, drugs, and/or a financial catastrophe.
Your ideals of attractiveness can change dramatically based on your circumstances. Personally, my ideals of attractiveness have ranged from a 150 sf trailer in a run-down trailer park to my (our) own home (built in 1939) and everything in between
apartments, a van, a tent.
I dont understand how some cannot see this. Have so many been privileged their entire life?