What about the rising cost of housing? Is that going to change when we don't have any regulations against corporate capture of housing?
Conservative protection of corporate greed is destroying our economy. The long-term solution is to remove conservatives from positions of influence. I'm not sure that's something that can be done peacefully.
It's one of the things that has to happen in order for housing costs to come down. The first battle is getting inventories up, and this will encourage people to sell and builders to build. Additionally, there are steps (federally and at state and local levels) to block or disinsentivise corporations from buying everything as soon as it hits the markets but those measures are largely untested.
Once there's inventory there's still work to do, but none of that work will matter without the inventory.
I really hate to break it to you, but supply isn't the issue, at least not the way you're implying. There's more than enough empty housing for every single person in this nation.
The primary issues are extreme amounts of land/property being bought up by investment firms only to sit empty in order to artificially drive supply down and only higher end housing being built new due to profit margins.
Yes the economy is very solid with roughly 1/4 of the population having a significantly negative net worth, another quarter of the population at roughly 0 net worth, and then something like I dunno 500,000 people having net worths over half a billion.
Very very solid foundations for late stage capitalism to transition into techno-feudalism.
Remember when the average 30ish year old American /owned/ where they lived?
Anyway, lets keep building low income housing... but mostly age restricted only for retiring, sundowning Boomers.
Their children can just die on the streets I guess, who cares!
At least the boomers will have the comfort of dying alone and hated (by their children and caretakers) in old folks homes rife with elderly abuse.
Millenials /might/ be lucky enough to survive the one two combo of climate change and peak oil leading to fertilizer and thus food shortages with an an averaged life expectancy of 65, allowing them to live out their roughly 5 Golden Years approximately a decade after Social Security will have gone bankrupt.
Or, even better, possibly Social Security will just be eliminated even earlier by insane Republicans that are voted in by their loyal followers who apparently dont realize or care that they themselves will die without it!
Is going long on 'panicked worldwide mass migration' a valid stock market strategy rofl?
You shouldn't blame places like Haiti and the South American nations where we toppled entire regimes to keep new markets open for our exploitation class.
Their economies were kneecapped by the global markets, especially us. They literally lack the resources to keep their kids fed because of our influence and interventions aimed to extract wealth for our private ownership class.
The US, on the other hand, chooses not to, which is worthy of infinite scorn and condemnation.
As ever, when referencing the economy, they're referring to private shareholder profits exclusively.
Their job is to keep making the rich richer full stop. Emergency loans in bad times go to them, under the blatant lie it will eventually be pissed down to you because they're so benevolent amirite? When inflation makes the value of their dragon hoards decrease, when capital battery workers gain leverage with employers, better incentivize layoffs to keep the cattle in their place.
The fed exists to work against you. Their metric for a "good economy" is ego scores for our narcissistic owner class going up faster. The fact they did so well by laying off legions of laborers that helped them succeed in the first place is irrelevant, as you don't qualify as people at all, not with that net worth, peasant.