THE FREE MARKET IS NEVER FREE these people are lying to themselves tbh.
Because I was curious, I went and checked the Chicago statistics in that report. We are pretty close to rent/own being the same (own is very slightly more, but like 1%.) Which vibes with my personal impressions.
(Interestingly, Chicago also is not one of those cities where rent is skyrocketing--such as Houston, Seattle, etc.--because instead of using that one coordinating software that ProPublica reported on last year, we have a lot of smaller landlords setting prices individually based on what's around them.)
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Date: 2023-05-26 02:48 pm (UTC)Because I was curious, I went and checked the Chicago statistics in that report. We are pretty close to rent/own being the same (own is very slightly more, but like 1%.) Which vibes with my personal impressions.
(Interestingly, Chicago also is not one of those cities where rent is skyrocketing--such as Houston, Seattle, etc.--because instead of using that one coordinating software that ProPublica reported on last year, we have a lot of smaller landlords setting prices individually based on what's around them.)