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homes should not be an investment. no one needs stocks everyone needs a home.

True! But show up at a hearing like me and you will hear angry people - who most definitely vote - talk about how those apartments may lower the value of their homes.

The problem in the U.S. (independently of everything else) is that value serves as a filtering mechanism.

Value of properties in a neighborhood correlates to the crime rate in that neighborhood - and that’s true nationwide, and because of certain political protections there’s no way to “divorce” the two - which presents a thorny problem.

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