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yes dr alexander but blackrock and vanguard have driven prices beyond affordability. answer is not regulation from govt, answer is to seize their assets under rico statute for crimes against humanity for funding the plandemic

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You are 100% correct. I do wish more people would travel. My family loves the Caribbean, particularly Jamaica. We also love WV. Ar home we have thie big house, nice yard, country club, vacation home, private school - the whole thing. Yet we are all, including our kids, most at peace up a holler in WV or hanging out under a leanto in Jamaica. The people are nicer, the conversations more interesting, and the level of sanity far higher than “educated” urbanite universe. I’ve never met anyone from Jamaica who thinks men can give birth!!!!!

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This is on the dem chopping block. They and the WEF want no home ownership. "You will own nothing and be happy." Evil

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To own the home you live in is to live as sovereign.

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Are we going back to feudalism.....maybe? "Feudalism is defined as a Medieval European political, economic and social system from the 9th to 15th century. An example of feudalism is someone farming a piece of land for a lord and agreeing to serve under the lord in war in exchange for getting to live on the land and receiving protection. "

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Home ownership is basically property rights. If you take away the right to own property you take away a fundamental part of American civic society - one apart from government - to own and maintain and have pride in ones land/home. Same thing!

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Agreed: Pride of ownership motivates you to take care of your neighborhood--but only if you PAY for that ownership! Section 8 Housing, which subsidizes your mortgage payments based on your income, and sometimes reduces your payments to ZERO, only instills the typical "entitlement" attitude of the poor--the same attitude that makes the other "free" welfare housing apartment developments so full of crime. If you don't pay for it, you won't take pride in it.

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Stop Paul.

Don't put the cart before the horse. You will never fix the problem you are referring to by increasing homeownership.

You are not wrong homeownership penetration rate increase is a worthy cause, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon, and they aren't ready for it.

Now, if you are talking about welfare reform and providing a path to homeownership in concert with full-time employment that's a whole different story. But we all know that's not going to happen.

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Right on the money....this is another clear indication of the agenda toward serfdom. From an archetypal perspective home ownership is the freeing of the chains that bind, of serfdom. To be King and/or Queen of your own castle is a huge part of the archetypal psychological demand surging in the unconscious of every human being,, which has been demonstrated through history, a people who are held by a master/owner...serf, slave, indentured servant, never is free until they OWN the physical environment they live on/in (unless no one else owns it, such as in ancient times). It is the “someone else owns my home and I am slave to them in order to live there” that is the problem...

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I bought my first home during the housing market crash in 2011. I had just gotten my first full time official adult job and the house I bought was 70k. That same house today is estimated at 250k (I sold it for 150 several years ago) my home now I purchased at 235k in 2016. A comparable home just sold for over half a million down the road from me (cash offer). Something is happening and I am not sure home ownership is going to be an option for most people anymore. At least not if you are getting in now. I talked to a realtor last fall who said she had a dozen potential buyers at the time and none were having luck because homes were selling next day after listening for cash OVER asking price. We have a 2% mortgage right now. With current prices and interest rates I can see no way we would move anytime soon. Not to spend so much more for a home and then be out significantly more in interest. Something has got to give here or only the wealthy or people who already bought in will own a home.

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So true.

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I'm going to mention the elephant of elephants: the illegitimacy rate. That's what drives the crime rate more than anything else. Kids without a dedicated father tend to grow up in poverty, tend to not have a male role model they can look up to, and often have a mother who has to work two jobs to keep things together, so they don't get much attention from the mom either.

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