Why You'll Never Buy A House #shorts #comedy #home #house #parody #reality #realestate #youtubeshorts
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00:00Home ownership is inextricably tied to achieving the American Dream.
00:05And also, just something we made up one day.
00:10That's a fridge. That's for meats.
00:13About a hundred years ago, the government developed a plan to build millions and millions of cheap places
00:19anybody could afford.
00:21Some would be simple and small, sure.
00:24But others would be big and nice enough that any family of any wealth bracket
00:29would enjoy living there.
00:31Even better, they wouldn't be expected to allocate over a third of their income
00:37on the privilege of not sleeping in the street like a dog.
00:41Okay, there's nothing wrong with sleeping like a dog.
00:44Okay.
00:46But then a lot of lobbyists and realtors and bankers shut the idea down.
00:54Because they knew they could make way more money by exclusively building houses
01:00nobody could actually afford.
01:02See, today, the median house in America costs $350,000.
01:11That's more than Jordan makes being a dog in a year.
01:13And that's like seven years in dog years.
01:16Don't worry, you won't pay that.
01:19They'll pay twice that much.
01:22And the extra money doesn't even go to the seller.
01:24It goes to the bank.
01:25Of course, that's assuming you have 20% of the total price in cash
01:31just lying around before you move in.
01:35Because if you don't, they'll charge you even more interest year after year
01:40till you grow so old, you can't even use all those stairs you bought.
01:46What can I say?
01:47It's expensive being poor.
01:50Why are all the prices so high?
01:52Shouldn't supply and demand make sweet love and hidden equilibrium
01:55that makes sense for everyone?
01:58Well, that's a weird way to put it.
02:00But here's the funny thing about that.
02:02The number of people who want houses keeps rising
02:06because people keep being born.
02:09But at some point during the last few decades,
02:11we just stopped building new houses.
02:14We didn't run out of land, though that'll happen eventually.
02:17Nope.
02:18We actually passed special laws banning
02:21the building of small, affordable houses
02:23or sticking multiple families in the same building.
02:27That's because to the people who make the laws and already have houses,
02:32other homes are just things they have to drive past and look at.
02:35And nobody wants their scenic route into work
02:39tainted by anything so gauche as whatever a middle class family could
02:44afford.