I'm resigning myself to reading all sorts of bad revisionist history on the 2007-08 financial crisis for the next 2 decades. 
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Oh man, can't wait to hear about this new-fangled trend of financialization of real estate! This certainly something that never happened before!
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The reason Americans are so pissed about investment firms buying single family housing is that it totally reveals the farcical nature of the whole system, housing as a high return financial asset and not a basic commodity essential for life
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>compete with people buying apartments Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! >compete with "hardworking middle-class folks from good families" buying SFH Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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I think there's classism involved but that's a much more tangled-up conversation to unpack.
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Yeah for sure, I mean investment companies have been doing multifamily for decades and it never provoked this level of outrage.... The reason why is definitely a story about class and race
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