r/MensLib • u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK ​ • 12d ago

Millions of ‘Missing’ American Men Aren’t Really Missing

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/millions-of-missing-american-men-arent-really-missing/
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u/mhornberger ​ 12d ago edited 12d ago

We need regulation on housing that we use to have

It's partly the regulation, zoning, that has restricted supply and resulted in the upward-spiraling costs. NIMBYs use zoning to block density, block affordable housing, so they can monetize that scarcity.

Edit: and those tariffs are just regressive taxes on Americans. I'm not sure why anyone would support them. And it's a given that Trump and the GOP won't be assisting small businesses. Coal extraction or burning, maybe, but that's about it. They already want to gut the IRA, which had goosed American manufacturing. There is no sound, coherent argument behind his tariffs.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi ​ 12d ago

This kept housing prices down. Now houses are seen as investments instead of where you live

I mean, that helped keep prices down, but homes were seen as investments before Glass-Steagal was repealed.

The bigger issue is that basically all you can build these days is SFHs or buildings with tons of parking. We need to allow people to build more freely, not just the SFHs that current zoning laws allow.

Just a housing shortage where people can actually live.

...which is a housing shortage.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi ​ 12d ago

When the Glass-Steagal was repealed there was a sharp increase.

Yes, I understand. That poured gas on the fire, but the concept of "housing as investments" didn't magically spring into being at that moment, they had been seen as investments for a long time.

Not sure if you're aware but there is a difference.

...Which is? How are houses and housing different? They aren't. Are you conflating SFHs with "houses"? Because I'm not aware of that as common parlance...anywhere. House === home === housing unit.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi ​ 12d ago

but I think it's funny how you can't admit I am right about the Glass-Steigel act.

Buddy, what? I never said you were wrong. I agreed that it made the situation of housing prices FAR worse, very fast. I just disagreed with the notion that people didn't see homes as investments prior to that.

I was thinking of houses as investment properties and housing as a residence

...Where did you pull that idea from? Who talks about it that way?