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Like an old game with very few assets (lemmy.world)
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[–] drake@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Short term rentals definitely made things worse, but the housing market was fucked up before short-term rentals became commonplace. They just poured more fuel on the fire. The main problem with the housing market is that homes are used as financial vehicles for investment and speculation.