You can't take the sky from me!

(I mean, unless you are FOX TV, then you can.)

No "Hey bud whatchyauptoo?" option

Flawed poll

"...communist hyperboles..."

What a great subservient serf/wage slave response. You might get a Pizza Party for that one!

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It's an investment, just like stocks. A place to park money owned by people who have too much. Except unlike stocks, people who hoard real estate are complicit in an active and ongoing murder of the homeless.

dae liberals and nonbinary people bad

I think your client and the rest of the world have different opinions on the word "modest"

> Around me a big developer wanted to expand a airport runway which would have destroyed over 12 vernal pools and wetlands. The runway was totally unnecessary for the planes he was bringing in. Luckily Act 250 stopped that expansion.

wow, you have no idea what you're talking about. neat.

Don’t you think this issue is particularly acute in Vermont? And it seems pretty obvious that there are other reasons at play, many of which are pointed out in the article. I’m not disagreeing with your sentiment at all, but shadowy hedge funds are not the only villain here.

I don't think that the quest for profit is responsible for the present crisis. The cause is a lack of supply through decades of intentional under-development. Which was exactly what the article is about. Rising prices are because of too much demand and not enough supply.

One of my favorite apartments ever was actually a big, grey Maoist apartment block in China. It wasn't much to look at, and obviously didn't have any sort of high end fit and finish, but there were little shops and hole-in-the-wall restaurants and the like on the street-facing side of the bottom level and the whole thing was built to enclose a central courtyard on 3 sides where people would hang out or bump into each other and shoot the shit or whatever. It really felt in a lot of ways like a proper neighborhood in spite of being right in the middle of a massive city.

He ain't wrong though.

Me too! :)

I also think that it's possible to have a neighborhood nearby that could be properly designed not to impact those pools and wetlands while also allowing people the benefit of being able to enjoy their beauty and provide the opportunity to learn why they are necessary and need to be protected.

"State Electoral College"

Fuck off.

I mean.. the quest for profit is directly responsible for the present housing crisis, no? Surely you don’t think there’s too much rent control and not enough profiteering.

Because laying hard line into rural areas isn't viable and we don't have the means to launch our own satellites.

You mean wealthy homeowners?

This! If you want cheaper single family housing, look at the last housing boom: Post WWII. They built 3/4BR ranches on 0.25acre lots. Single family isn't the most effective use of space but 5acre or even 3.5 acre minimum is a recipe for expensive housing

To allow multiunit buildings? Smaller minimum lot sizes? What particularly do you want to change?

They were still selling them back off like crazy for most of last year. The market has definitely slowed up considerably since about last November with the feds increasing the interest rates and now the threat of the national debt ceiling not being raised... A lot of those assholes are currently stuck with the bulk of what they bought up around that time.

Until they tax second home owners enough for it to be unprofitable many homes will remain empty. 4 houses on my street are empty 80% of the time. It’s frustrating when you want to buy a home and someone offers 20% above market value in cash.

Right? There's literally 49 other states that do things a different way, some more regulated, some less. And none have the charm or appeal of Vermont.

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I get that, but they don’t seem to be selling? There was this big rush to buy when interest rates were low (which wouldn’t even matter to big-time investors) but not to resell? What is the point of sitting on the empty properties?

The painful ignorance is not understanding your points were refuted with facts. The tone of your comment is exactly what the article says is the problem with our State.