I get that. But usually that's also tempered by the bad news. Like cool that rate cut will totally lower the borrowing cost to buy a house. But you can't afford it without a job, and tariffs and the administration disappearing laborers has increased the cost to build it.

I guess that would make sense. So if you know a crash is inevitable you run up your losses to increase your possible bailout?

In this case I don't blame the headline writers. It does appear that bad news drives the market up.

Sears Craftsman kit homes were derided as cheap housing. Postwar housing was built at fast and possible. They're all still here and are now beloved.

Yeah. "Damaging property values" is called making sure everyone can afford a home and no one is homeless. It's one of my core principals. You can't treat a home as an investment vehicle and house everyone. You have to make housing scarce to make property values go up.

Rents and housing prices going down? Is that not what you're looking for? Home prices are down 10% YOY in my zip code and rents down $250/month YOY.

I know these developers exist. I'm thinking of a specific one in Austin. They have figured out that being the only one who knows how to navigate local planning makes them rich with little work. Fix is to remove all the nonsense so anyone can compete, and they'll put those jerks out of business.

You're totally right. They're thinking of "shit stirrer". Completely wrong use of that phrase, unless she's started wearing wranglers and raising goats.

We do need a meme about how luxury apartments will displace the therapy llamas.

The best way to solve this is to make the number of representatives proportionate to the population, so as it grows so does the house. Rather than having representation fall as the population grows. The current number was ser when us pop was 109mil now 3x that. Need 1300+ reps.