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haha yeah Canada is on a whole different level
It's funny because there's this relationship where the Canadian government doesn't try to improve an issue because the USA is worse, but this one issue is reversed
lol yup
Someone posted the cheapest house in the area recently. It's $350k~, would require a $90k/year income to get a mortgage, is totally gutted, and has no legal road access. The NIMBYs around here are dead-set on never allowing development over 4 floors with only luxury apartments being built.
No compassion, no compassion, no excuses 
Every single time I look at real estate listing (as a masochistic practice I guess), I look at the demographics of the area, particularly the median and average wage, and without fail the overwhelming majority of people who live next to these houses could not afford them.
Few things politically ACTIVATE suburban voters into a frothing rage like a proposed new apartment complex or light rail extension.
It's so bizarre they think some new transit means poor people are going to come rob them in the middle of the night. Nobody wants to be in your little shithole you fuckin weirdos. But they'll torture themselves with hour long commutes for decades to make sure they never see a non-white person outside the safety of their suburban assault vehicle.
I've heard similar arguments against sidewalks. Like, no, I just want to be able to walk my dog safely and maybe visit a neighbor without walking in the street.
this is why Marin doesn't have BART, they didn't want poor people to be able to get there without a really long bus ride.
And wtf are poor people going to do other than get profiled and arrested for existing? Poor people aren't dumb, they're not going to endanger themselves by entering enemy territory.
be seen and make the Marin liberals have to deal with guilt over social murder
I think we should raze the suburbs.
Also bike lanes.
It's more like the average age is a 37 year old private equity firm founded in the cocaine 80s.
First or second+ home?
56 is all home purchases. the average age of first-time buyers is 38, and of repeat buyers is 61:
The median first-time buyer age increased to 38 years old this year from 35 last year, while the typical repeat buyer age also increased to 61 years from 58 last year.
you can find the full report here (linked in article)