This basement I live in costs 69% of my income

Yimby: "We should build more houses to address the housing crisis."

Leftist: "So people can live in them at-cost, right?"

Yimby: putting on his landlord hat

Leftist: "... Right?"

Unfortunately I think its unrealistic to hope for something that doesn't take profits into consideration as things stand now. Also, while I agree rents have gone FAAARRRRRR beyond any practical purposes, some people do forget "at cost" includes extra to cover maintenance and taxes.
- some people do forget “at cost” includes extra to cover maintenance and taxes.
  
  Taxes are a function of property value. One of the more ugly moral hazards of the last few decades has been municipal governments hungrily consuming the enormous tax windfalls of exploding property prices while residents are forced to pick up the tab for more and more privatized municipal services.
  
  The same house jumping from $150k to $600k doesn't translate into roads that are 4x nicer or drainage 4x better managed or schools 4x more well-funded. It just floods into the pockets of municipal cronies and private contractors, for mayoral vanity projects. Selling property "at-cost" would keep the tax rates down. But high ranking city officials don't want cheap land in their city. That cuts into their slush funds.
  
  So we see city officials tacitly encourage these exploding housing costs, while residents are priced out of homes they could have easily afforded even during the 2008 housing peak.
Didn't know what a Yimby was, this link explained it very well for me!

Ironically, the cop isn't a pig.

And the rich fatcat isn't a cat.
- Seems like someone accidentally swapped the roles when they were brainstorming this... internet comic

Shitpost or fact??

Came here to ask the same. No idea why this is a shitpost
- op is a landlord

Fyi Pork bbq is good stuff

Upvote because it's a good meme or downvote because discussion on the instance will be heavily censored?

For all the whining about being censored and banned there sure always seems to be a while lot of you following ml instances just to cry about them being ml.
- following ml instances
  
  All - Top Six Hours.
  
  You're whining that people complain about censorship?

I am starting to plan my suicide.

I hope you procrastinate as much as possible
Do it to a landlord instead, get free room and board for the rest of your life.
- And all the love you'll never want
If you are serious and then you have nothing to lose: Look up adversarial occupation.

Squat in a rich dudes house long enough and its yours. Might be fun to try.
- I need to do something, otherwise I'm having the equivalent of a destination wedding somewhere with easy access to prescription medication. It's a scary proposition but this is not an economic system I fit into, and I can't think of anything else to do.
A solid retirement plan.
- I don't even have a career to retire from, I'm squarely in the precariat despite my MSc, apparently I'm not an economically valuable individual.

Did they base the pig on Kevin O'Leary?

That must be one incredible basement!

Or in NYC, a mold-infested roach hotel where someone probably drowned during the flooding a few years back.

Homes get dramatically cheaper as you move away from cities. Particularly if you have a remote work job, it is something to heavily consider.

As the home prices go down, the probability that you'll be able to find decent healthcare, education, and basically any businesses that consistently stay open outside of 9-5 weekdays goes with them
- Good schools are kinda all over the place. There are good and bad ones in cities and good and bad ones outside of cities.
  
  Certainly less businesses open super late, that moreso depends on what you want out of things. For example, most of my friends play video games at home and meet up to go hiking, canoeing, etc, none of which require stores to be open very late.
  
  For healthcare, yeah, you might need to drive slightly further for a specialist, but it rarely is an issue; and is certainly something you can look for. Though, for me at least, having the extra money to afford the specialist easily outweighs the longer drive when I need one. Not so great healthcare access at my income level if all of it is going to rent and none leftover for healthcare.
  
  Anyway, point is, it's going to depend on the person and what you most desire. It is important to not dismiss alternatives off-hand when they can solve the largest monetary issue in your life.
Particularly if you have a remote work ~~job~~ entire rest of your career

If you move out of the city to work remote, then you'll have to keep working remotely for as long as you own the house.
- Don't threaten me with a good time!
- Rents also get dramatically cheaper as you move away from cities. Again, something to heavily consider.
haha my sister lives so far out in the sticks that you can see the milky way clearly and the rent around her is still 1.3k+ for a ROOM
Not anymore. You have to go into the deep rural area where Internet access and such are a problem. NYT went to Kalamazoo to illustrate this.