Housing
5 unrolled threads about housing, each one readable on a single page.
- Aug 17, 2025
Blackstone didn't buy 274,000 homes to be landlords. They spent $1 trillion turning homeownership into subscription housing. They are creating a generation that will own nothing and rent everything....
SummaryBlackstone has spent $1 trillion acquiring 274,000 homes not to build wealth but to create a subscription housing model that locks out individual homebuyers and extracts wealth through algorithmic rent increases. This systematic consolidation of housing stock—facilitated by AI pricing coordination and bulk cash purchases—is eliminating homeownership as a path to generational wealth and replacing it with corporate-controlled rental feudalism.15 tweets2 min read - Apr 29, 2026
NEW: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race. In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 y...
SummaryDemocratic jurisdictions across multiple states are allocating homeless services and housing based on race through points-based systems, quotas, and targeted funding, prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals over others regardless of need. Legal experts argue these race-based programs likely violate the Fair Housing Act and the Constitution, creating two-tiered systems where racial minorities have greater access to publicly funded housing than white homeless individuals.28 tweets3 min read - Jun 12, 2026
🚨🧵HUD has suspended fraud-filled LAHSA's funding. @WHFraudTF will not allow taxpayer dollars to fuel the homeless industrial complex. LAHSA poses a threat to the public. See for yourself ⬇️
SummaryHUD has suspended funding to LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) due to multiple instances of fraud and mismanagement, including inability to account for empty hotel rooms, misuse of government funds, false certifications, and a former CEO's conflict-of-interest violations involving $2 million in federal funds.7 tweets1 min read - Jun 15, 2026
Victory. No more taxpayer-backed home loans for illegal aliens. This is one of those things you can't believe was actually happening. American citizens are struggling to buy homes while mass migrati...
SummaryHUD Secretary Turner ended a policy that allowed undocumented immigrants to access taxpayer-backed home loans, citing housing affordability concerns for American citizens and claiming the Biden administration had bent eligibility rules.7 tweets1 min read - Nov 7, 2025
Llegué a Viena con expectativas altas. Lógico para cualquier persona que estudia las ciudades y sus problemas habitacionales. La capital de Austria parece una utopía hecha realidad, un modelo a seguir...
SummaryVienna has created a successful public housing model where 80% of residents rent from the state or cooperatives at affordable rates tied to income, funded through taxes on luxury consumption and construction. Unlike other European cities that privatized public housing in the 1980s, Vienna maintained and expanded this system, resulting in rents 30-50% cheaper than London or Berlin, demonstrating an alternative to the failed "ownership" housing policies common in Latin America.29 tweets3 min read