i think the left would benefit from a stronger analysis of the real estate industry, it’s component parts, those who benefit from the existing property rights’ regime
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Entrenched, exclusionary homeowners are the most powerful force in local politics, everywhere. They keep out the poor, POCs, immigrants, & domestic migrants from their neighborhoods with their hold over local politicians & institutions. Basically a local mob
Well like it’s a structural barrier but there is another one which is that the US working class kind of relies on homeownership given the weak to non existent welfare state. We can’t just …ignore homeowners as a constituency that matters to organize. Overwhelming imo