I am utterly consumed with trying to find a house to live in where I cut a check to a bank instead of some creep who doesn’t sell their labor. And my partner & I are white technology workers who make decent money, so we’re self-aware of where we push the needle in the gentrifying forces of a city.
I am so salty about the idea of an “assessor” – like, are you kidding me, you’re just going to walk through a property and say “yeah, since this was seemingly owned by white people it’s gonna be worth an extra $50k” like that’s a feature?! We don’t wash our legs! This is common knowledge!
As salty as I am about assessments, I’m also salty about how Zillow now has “homes listed by Zillow” like that’s not a massive conflict of interest. I’m flabbergasted that we don’t just FUND ALL SCHOOLS EQUALLY because that would actually make the “I need to live in the ~best~ school district for my children” problem go away! I hate that people think their house is/should/can be their retirement strategy – this is unsustainable and unwise. I’m angry that house prices have increased but wages haven’t. I’m mad that we have enough empty houses to have everyone living inside, and we would do it if we weren’t a broken society. This whole process has really shown me that we have commodified property in the most dangerous, wasteful, inaccessible, absurd way possible. It’s all so broken!
I was telling a friend we were trying to buy a house, and he roasted me extremely well:
But also, points were made. Anyway, maybe one day I’ll have a house. Then it’s time to think about the garden and a dog 🙂
Lani.Tech 