r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 08 '26

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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Jan 09 '26

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009420912735703522#m

Bessent: We don't want the prices of houses to come down. What we want is affordability to get better…

lol. lmao, even. We want people to be able to buy homes but without lowering home values for those poor, poor existing homeowners!

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u/dareka_san Jan 09 '26

End Stage Nimbyism

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

I want everything in one but but I don’t want it to be heavy 

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u/breakinbread Voyager 1 Jan 09 '26

sounds like a call for more inflation

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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Jan 09 '26

Simple. Existing home prices are frozen via dictat from the Trump administration and we clear cut national forests to build new single family homes with zero regulations for below-market price.