#HomeOwnership

Paul E Williams

PEwilliams_

lots of people talking about the homeownership numbers from the census today. brief thread on why the numbers are bullshit (which the census themselves admit) and why it's not helpful

Tyler Markham

TylerHMarkham

Serious question: What are the benefits to Affordable homeownership vs Affordable rental programs, assuming same income guidelines etc.? Also assuming that the affordable rental program admin won’t evict people the

Callie Cox

callieabost

I don’t know how many of you need to hear this today, so:Renting is not throwing money away. Sure, you’ll likely never see that rent money ever again. But you

Dan Immergluck

DanImmergluck

The always worth-reading Adam Levitin has an excellent piece in @TheProspect on risk-based-pricing in mortgage market and its strong impact on #RacialWealthGap. It's super. But I would also add some

a Black-passing Latina.

aliciasanchez

IDK anyone in DC who bought a house in the last 10 years without family support (including parents paying for college so fewer loans, or living with parents rent free),

Rep. Ro Khanna

RepRoKhanna

FDR led America out of the Great Depression and through World War II, but many of his policies systematically discriminated against Black & Brown people. We must learn from our past to

Ramit Sethi

ramit

Today, let's look "underneath" the headlines & avoid misleading statisticsA realtor posted this comment challenging me about homeownership. He shared that homeowners' net worth is ~44x higher than renters. (The

Atlas

TitanNamedAtlas

White America used everything including law enforcement, federal, local, and state policy, unions, infrastructure construction, and more to purposely prevent people of color from having a path to homeownership and

Neil Goodrich 💚

NGoodrichHsg

The facts of the matter are this: people once helped by #SocialHousing now have to rely on the fag end of the #PRS because there isn't enough social stock in

Joshua Baum

JoshuaBaum93

Even before the the pandemic, renter households were already struggling. #harvardhousingreport Homeowners of color have been disproportionately impacted by the negative impacts of the pandemic. #harvardhousingreport Home sales surged after

julian francis park

jfpark3

I think of the horizon of the tenants' struggle as rent abolition. This is partly bc that horizon is immanent to rent strikes & expropriations, & partly bc the rent

Consequence is no coincidence

BlueSteelDC

I had a very sincere question from someone from the very left- On why the Very left routinely loses the black vote.Listen to this clip, and where the conversation begins

Thicky Watters.

GeeDee215

this feels...familiar.https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1300939997059493888 jokes aside...we're currently looking to buy a house. (it's not a situation i ever really figured i'd find myself in given where and how i grew up.) t

Chloe Timperley 🔰

GenRentBook

I know I keep droning on about this, but the main point of Shared Ownership is to provide a private revenue stream for housing associations. Giving ppl the illusion of

hk

hassankhan

Thanks to a nudge from @conorsen, some initial thoughts on how homeownership has felt different than renting. Three big themes for me:- security- agency- timescale The first one is easy.

Hancen A. Sale

Hancen4Sale

1/ Some housing economics for you. Here's a visual showing how supply constraints could impede the Knox housing market.Pended listings (i.e. under contract) is a forward-looking indicator for home sales

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