The way to solve the housing crisis is to entice people to move people into the Rust Belt cities. amirite?

What about jobs?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I would think thats part of the the govt incentivising.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Companies should be incentivized to allow remote work again. We're already giving them massive tax breaks. Might as well throw in some conditions with it.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I don't understand the pushback against remote work. If the work's getting done, why does it matter where you do it from? Why pay for office space, upkeep, and utilities?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

girl the housing crisis is a global issue and not a US one, the issue stems from the ballooning populations in urban areas, the slowing down of building, and just wages not catching up with cost of living (ignoring housing) if we want to fix it anytime soon we just need to build more

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Lol, their infrastructure is 100+yrs old, and hasn't been properly maintained in decades. Everything needs to be replaced.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah, but they actually WANT TO DO IT. San Francisco does not.

by North-Network 1 month ago

Not to mention how hard it is to invest in these neighborhoods due to federal redlining districts.

by Substantial_Soup 1 month ago

Also, no incentive is going to fix the weather.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

People are also not much interested to move from happening place to the dead cities of rust belt.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Not necessarily to just the rust belt itself but even just out of the current major cities. I know I'd certainly move a couple hours away if I could. I'd be willing to bet money there's a significant number of people who feel the same, and then those who want to stay will have more housing options and less overcrowding.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

What about work. There's a reason these people left.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The president makes his money with commercial real estate so it's not too shocking that so many of these politicians that blindly support him also support things that are beneficial to the real estate market but not for the average person.

by LawDangerous7678 1 month ago

So many houses/neighborhoods in Detroit have been bulldozed that they are farming in the middle of the city now.

by Forward-Brother 1 month ago

bro what do you mean lol housing is getting out of hand here as well. We bought our house in 2014 in a small 60,000 person rustbelt city, the house next door to us sold in 2023. It is the exact same house as ours minus a few details. One of which is we have a finished basement that house does not. It sold for a little more than twice what we paid for our house. 9 years, it doubled in price. That is bonkers. we don't need more people moving here and driving up the home prices. We need to outlaw corporations buying family homes is what we need to do. if it cost that much when my wife and I were looking we simply could not have afforded a home. And now making way more money then we did then we could afford a house the same size as our current one if we wanted to move.

by audreannearmstr 1 month ago

The way is through government investment, incentives, and tax breaks. Sounds Commie to me! /s

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Dude, have you driven across Wyoming?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And WTF do you think they're going to do for work there???? I used to do HAZMAT and we were constantly going from city to city taking the Asbestos etc out of these old factories, I've been in a hundred of these towns. They're drying up and dying. Everyone there is surviving by dealing drugs or welfare and the infrastructure is all falling apart. I know places I've worked where you can buy a 2 story tenement for $40,000, and the same house has been on the market for a decade. You need jobs to live somewhere.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

But I can't grow weed in the city

by augustinehauck 1 month ago

lets encourage remote work, instead of requiring mandatory RTO.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yea…remote work.

by Rueckersamanta 1 month ago

Im not seeing many people mention it, but another problem this ignores is that at the rate we are going investors are supposed to own 40% of all homes 2 out of every 5 homes will forever be rental property. In 5 years And then it will keep going. This creates an artificial scarcity. Theres not as many homes to own so theyre worth more but theres only so many to own because the rich bought all the rest So sure, move people out to areas where homes are still available, make the cost of living go up, and then the investors will also focus on those areas

by bednarmargret 1 month ago

The government should be pouring money into something? Only if you want to make the problem worse which is all government does There is no housing crisis. People just want to live in areas they cannot afford.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Of all the times to say people are "worrying too much" about living in cities... - The economy is in a downturn since Trumps antics have started. Why would people move away from jobs? - Why would people move to areas where they don't have rights? Why would any woman want to move a red state where abortions are becoming illegal and they could die an easily preventable death? I've experienced so much racism and sexism in these lovely rust belt cities. You couldn't give me a free house there. - Say I do find a job that pays less than my current one in a nicer city. Now I need some of that easily available housing you mentioned. Oh wait, no one has lived there for the last 50 years so there is no livable housing for this magical influx of people. Who's going to pay to fix up the housing? Good luck.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This. There is no sum of money they could pay me to make me move to the rust belt. I'll take my HCOL neighborhood where I still have rights and that isn't flooded with meth heads.

by yostjerod 1 month ago

Jobs left the rust belt because business leaders could get bigger bonuses by transferring the jobs to China. Tariffs will not bring jobs back from China. Tax business leaders at 70% to 80% until they re-invest in America. When the CEO of Caterpillar has to pay 80% of his $25,000,000 yearly compensation in taxes, watch how quickly those jobs come flooding in.

by Crooksjamil 1 month ago

Agreed, not sure why we've never done this. Even if you assume it's not going to be possible to really build a viable economy in these cities, there are millions of people in retirement and/or living on government checks would could be enticed to move there, thereby freeing up housing in the places that have viable economies.

by North-Network 1 month ago

I don't have one shred of sympathy for people who move to HCOL areas with no skills, experience, marketable education, or next egg and then whine about how broke they are.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

To shreds you say?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Only dangerous to cultist scum.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I dont think half of those words mean what you think they mean

by bednarmargret 1 month ago