cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3560407
Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?
No. Reasons:
For whatever reason, it seems like many people focus on the real estate speculators, and while that’s undoubtedly part of the problem, the costs and red tape of actually building new housing is often ignored. When population increases and you can’t increase supply there’s no where for prices to go but up. The root cause of the problem needs to first be addressed which is the need to build more housing and that’s not a simple problem to solve since it involves the intersection of so many other problems. Therefore I can’t say I’m optimistic that housing will go anywhere but up.