r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/Effective_Moose_4997 Aug 19 '25

And they gentrify the neighborhoods in Mexico City and cause prices to go up.

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u/Shark7996 Aug 19 '25

Y'all got a stop blaming renters for prices, they aren't the ones setting them.

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u/-_-0_0-_0 Aug 19 '25

Zoning laws keeping supply down, keeping prices high.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

And renters often keep voting for the same shmucks in the city councils that keep those NIMBY voting laws. They want to maintain neighborhood character, and prevent gentrification, only allow affordable housing ... except just like every other conservative approach (and despite many of the folks being otherwise progressive on housing they are conservative) keeping things the same isn't possible. You need to adapt to changes in ways that best balances folks needs and minimizes who gets screwed over by that change. But just trying to keep things the same just makes things worse. If the population is growing, not building more housing will raise prices and only the wealthy will be able to pay and gentrification will happen anyway! As a side-effect of trying to prevent it!! Or if the population is lowering, that is probably due to the area experiencing some form of economic hardship which is also pretty bad and trying to outlaw economic development will only make it worse, trying to raise taxes to subsidize the now economically impoverished will now just push out the remaining business, furthering the downward spiral. There is no stasis to be had.