You specifically said that in your first post on an article about housing assistance, and then tried to back up your assumption with a made up scenario. The help people are getting is such a small percentage of what is spent on housing in this area that there is no way assistance is causing prices to go up.
@helenslunch
All the less than 7500 people getting rent assistance in a market with how many apartments? That’s a miniscule part of the market.
Rents increase because more people are moving here (it’s gone from about 100k to nearly a million in the 30 years I’ve been here without much new building until the last few years) and Austin already had a tight apartment market in the 90s. @FigMcLargeHuge
@helenslunch
Show me proof it doesn’t matter and I’ll believe it. There has been housing subsidizing for a long time. I had a subsidized apartment back in the 90s for a while. And yet prices didn’t really spike until the last couple of years. I’ll grant you it’s possible subsidies cause landlords to raise rents a few dollars. But not to the degree we’ve seen lately.
What’s happening lately is tenants are expected to bid for apartments. That’s what’s allowing the rents to skyrocket.
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So you are against giving people help who probably need it the most based on some scenario you have completely made up. Nice. Thanks for clarifying.
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You specifically said that in your first post on an article about housing assistance, and then tried to back up your assumption with a made up scenario. The help people are getting is such a small percentage of what is spent on housing in this area that there is no way assistance is causing prices to go up.
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@helenslunch
All the less than 7500 people getting rent assistance in a market with how many apartments? That’s a miniscule part of the market.
Rents increase because more people are moving here (it’s gone from about 100k to nearly a million in the 30 years I’ve been here without much new building until the last few years) and Austin already had a tight apartment market in the 90s.
@FigMcLargeHuge
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@helenslunch
Show me proof it doesn’t matter and I’ll believe it. There has been housing subsidizing for a long time. I had a subsidized apartment back in the 90s for a while. And yet prices didn’t really spike until the last couple of years. I’ll grant you it’s possible subsidies cause landlords to raise rents a few dollars. But not to the degree we’ve seen lately.
What’s happening lately is tenants are expected to bid for apartments. That’s what’s allowing the rents to skyrocket.
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