As always, the corporate media of Austin finally posts the obvious regarding the Austin real estate market. Travis and Williamson County are now unaffordable? NO! It couldn’t be all the greedy vultures pestering me via SMS to buy my house only to flip it at a $100K markup? It couldn’t be all these assholes from bloated, strip-mall-covered landscapes with inflated equity which makes them pay well over market? Lastly, it couldn’t be the GOP and NeoLiberal allies in local positions bending backwards to accommodate corporations that don’t need welfare in order bring more, low-paying jerbs to the area? Put it all together and you have the wet dream of realtors, land rapists (most of them prefer to be called developers) and landlords!
It just sucks for the many friends, neighbors and co-workers I know who will probably have to leave the area or trade it in for a ridiculous commute with today’s fuel prices; god forbid mass transit in Texas. I was very fortunate to have my opportunity 20 years ago and managed to hold on as its value actually went down for several years. Ergo, I am willing to fight for others unlike the Limo Liberals, Selfish Libertarians and Moron Republicans making up an indecent proportion of residents here.
Affordable housing is going to be an issue in the upcoming midterms. Here’s how it’s going to play out too. The Democrats led by Grampa Brunch and the Unholy Trinity (Pelosi, Clyburn and Hoyer) will address it via platitudes while saying they have (empty) promises from the real estate castes to build more. The Republicans will continue with Autocratic playbook, it’s all due to non-White people, non-heterosexual people and whatever enemy they find since anyone with an IQ of 80 knew, the GOP never has a plan. They just repeat the failed ideas ingrained in their DNA circa 1876-1952, 1980-.
Affordable housing is an issue everywhere. California and New York have horrible issues with that.