By: Laura Christie
17 Jun 2022
I have A LOT of questions about the housing market that no one seems willing or able to answer. Some journalists have written stories about specific problem pockets, but most just write what’s dictated to them by “sources” with (in)vested interests and agendas. Politicians are universally useless. Even if they get the gist of the desperation and depravity at the core of the issue, they offer platitudes along the lines of “I’m calling for investigations into ______.” (The same thing they do every time there’s a shooting, price increase, supply shortage, or scandal and somehow get awarded political credits they later cash in for votes.) There is job security in actively doing nothing and being able to blame the other guy for preventing action. The two institutions of accountability are deeply corrupted by the usefulness of apathy. Political leadership and the media are almost* universally complicit in reducing this country to a real-life Lord of the Flies existence.