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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

There's nothing wrong with favoring the people with the least generational wealth first and foremost

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

That is a major assumption there is generational wealth. ESPECIALLY with trans/gay people being family-less in many situations. The down payment could easily be collected via estate tax to where everyone had the option of it but the wealthy paid more in. It can also completely ignore a lack of generational wealth like parents so wealthy they only rent multi million dollar apartments in Manhattan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm happy for those people who will benefit. But try being a kid of parents who have the mindset of "FU I got mine". I'm not on favorable terms with my parents and won't see a penny until they've passed, if they decide to give me anything at all.

It's an odd requirement that should've been workshopped a little more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then why are we giving twice that to developers who own office buildings?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Just like with Covid and the PPE loans, they coulda given the money directly to the people but this is capitalism and the money has to go to your neo-feudal lord now before you can have any of it. Just wait for that trickle down. Trickle down from your boss, from your landlord, from your parents... your need for a place to live can wait.