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Given the growing affordable housing shortages in America, particularly in Massachusetts, how can the US and the liberals justify allowing in so many migrants? Massachusetts is estimated to be short 116,000 units of housing and wants to add a "mansion tax" in order to help fund more housing startups. And then what about the needed additional classrooms and teachers to meet the added population that comes with the added housing? How is this fair to American homeowners who are already saddled with high property taxes?
Well on this forum the answer is build more housing for these idiots. And no one dares about American homeowners. If anything there seems to be a lot of disdain towards them because they were able to buy a home.
And there are several other reasons for our housing shortages. Airbnb, foreign investors, also domestic real estate investment groups, and real estate flippers. IMO foreign property owners ought to be taxed at an much higher rate, the way they are up in Vancouver, Canada. And the profits from house flippers and real estate investment groups (owning residential properties including mobile home parks) should also taxed at a higher rate.
And there are several other reasons for our housing shortages. Airbnb, foreign investors, also domestic real estate investment groups, and real estate flippers. IMO foreign property owners ought to be taxed at an much higher rate, the way they are up in Vancouver, Canada. And the profits from house flippers and real estate investment groups (owning residential properties including mobile home parks) should also taxed at a higher rate.
Agree. People are pretty greedy about housing these days. I am often floored at what homes cost now. Also the amount of well to do folks who buy homes that they barely USE amazes me. Cape homes, homes in FL, many older people now seem to have two homes that they go back and forth between - example is boston area for the summer, FL for the winter.
I go on a cape cod reddit forum and the amount of hate the locals have towards people who have a summer house is kind of crazy. To me the cape has always been a place to spend the summer, i know there always have been year round people there but there seem to be many more now and it's an unhappy situation for them if they're renting it seems....So now the locals hate how much it costs to live there...even though they chose to live there...so they hate the people who have summer homes or just show up there in the summer. Times have changed for sure.
This thread was started partially to ask about migrants in hotels on the Cape during peak season this year. Well, Memorial Day is around the corner. Does anyone know if migrants are impacting hotel availability? We have a booking in June and another in August and didn't notice any differences in rates/availability during our searches. But would love to hear from anyone with first-hand knowledge.
The state want to add an additional shelter for migrants in Dennis. The building used to be a nursing home.
I think Healey is done with the hotels, for lack of money.
that's AWFUL. WTF???? What happened to taking care of our own citizens not people escaping to be here.
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