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@buckrogersmd @jonbrooks Totally agree but if you need somewhere to live then life and comfort matter.

@JuMalcom @jonbrooks If you’re holding cash, buy blue chip stocks, real estate holding costs and lack of appreciation over the next decade are gonna make the cash look amazing.

Is now a good time to buy real estate?

@jojopuppyfish @MayorBowser You should turn your head to the $515 million dc actually spent, for an existing asset, to buy and renovate capital one Arena. That deal was wholly controlled by DC Government not the federal govt

@JuMalcom @MayorBowser I'm right. Your wrong

By 2030, we will have all of our professional sports teams in the boundaries of Washington, DC.

@jojopuppyfish @MayorBowser Are your DC taxes going up for this? Unequivocally no.

@DemolishSEblvd Tired motel is more accurate. You are right.

@JuMalcom "Old motel" is a bit of a euphemism

Gentrification is good actually.

@jonbrooks Income caps for receiving early social security payments don’t take real estate income seriously. In no normal world should a 62 year old get max social security while renting out several properties at a paper loss.

This is actually nuts.. "For the first time, the oldest Americans (70+) held a larger share of real estate wealth than middle-aged Americans (40-54)."

@marketgeniusx @zerohedge We almost started looking like we were going to make it out but this war just put us right back into stagflation mode.

@zerohedge 587K vs 722K expected is a 19% miss. Mortgage rates still above 7%, oil ripping past $100, and now housing demand craters. The stagflation setup is textbook -- falling activity with sticky inflation. Fed has no clean exit here.

There goes housing: New Home Sales 587K, Exp. 722K, down 17.6%

@nickgerli1 Show me a price per square foot before I go riding this narrative that prices are falling

Lennar, America's 2nd largest builder, has cut prices 24% from peak. Their price on new deliveries hit $491k in 2022. But they've cut by over $110k since then, through price reductions and mortgage buydowns. The result is a $374k net price in 2026, down -8% YoY and -24% from peak. This is the cheapest we've seen in a decade, even lower than the pre-pandemic norms. This is actually great news for homebuyers. Housing deflation is setting in, and Lennar is leading the charge for builders in returning affordability to buyers.

@GeoffreyBailey @jonbrooks If rates go down this chart doesn’t budge because it’s a lazy depiction of the cost of housing. Only when prices move or, more importantly, incomes change will this chart move.

40% of homes are owned free and clear (no mortgage) The remaining homes 1/2 have a rate lower than 5% Is that why inventory is still well well well below average? How does this chart compared to average incomes? If rates go down what happens to affordability vs that income average? What gives?

@jonbrooks Or they are a reflection of how weak our dollar is right now. Do this chart in comparison to gold or any other hard asset and let me know your thoughts.

This pretty much sums it up. Houses. Are. Overpriced.

Here you go: 500M for Horizonal construction, meaning roads, sidewalks, etc. around the stadium (Funds from Capital Budget- most debatable. This would have been offered to some degree in any major redevelopment project) $181M for Parking (Funds from EventsDC and Capital Budget - not from taxpayers) $175M for Parking (Generated by Future Revenue - only if it’s built) $202M for "preparing the site," meaning roadways, utilities infrastructure and WMATA Capacity Study — This money would have been needed to decide the future of the site regardless of whether a stadium was built. $89M for State of the Art SportsPlex at Fields at RFK - not related to the team. The rest of the ‘cost to the taxpayer’ are all opportunity costs that imply the dc residents own the land and had the explicit rights to decide what gets developed in place of a decrepit existing stadium. They don’t. The US citizens own it. The opportunity cost of the stadium deal is leaving it as is or building a new one. The use of future tax revenue is using fund that are non existent if nothing is built so it’s not a new tax.

@JuMalcom @MayorBowser This article is what I believe. ggwash.org/view/99327/a-c…

@DemolishSEblvd Zanzibar night club, Phillips seafood, Jenny’s Chinese food. Just a bunch of surface parking and suburban style restaurants and an old motel the channel in. It’s funny when the wharf is cited as gentrification when there weren’t any housing units demolished.

Can anyone remind me what was here before?

You just said the DC taxpayer will pay for all of it which is overwhelmingly not true. This is federal land and its development rights were given to DC for free with the caveat it had to be developed into a stadium among other uses. So you’re welcome you get a stadium. DC taxpayers aren’t “paying” for the stadium. The tax breaks afforded to the team are on the basis that this could have been used for other tax generating developments but the reality is the federal government would not have handed DC the land for simply a bunch of taxable offices and apartments.

@JuMalcom @MayorBowser So the multibillionaire can't pay for it? The NFL which makes billions can't pay for it? Fuck you

@TeslaRoshi @jonbrooks Creating debt is never a good idea but if we are going to do it let’s do it for the youngest who might be capable of paying it back over the course of their life. Piling up debt for the benefit of old people or naturally selecting single people is worthless.

@JuMalcom @jonbrooks A lot of problems with this proposal… but aspirationally, I agree.

My friends in their 30s are deciding not to have kids They’re saying two things: They don’t have the money It’s inconvenient to their lifestyle This is not good. What do we do?

@BlackIshgvm @MattWalshBlog Explain the benefits of those environmental laws and permitting steps like I’m a child. And who administers those laws?

Not really an apples to apples comparison. Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building were built in the 1930s with far fewer environmental laws, worker protections, permitting steps, or community reviews and a lot more tolerance for injury and death on job sites. That “small bridge” is a specialized wildlife crossing over one of the busiest freeways in the country, designed to restore an entire ecosystem, not just move cars or generate power. It’s also being built in a modern regulatory environment where you can’t just bulldoze ahead. You can argue California projects are too slow and expensive that’s fair. But comparing them to Depression era mega projects ignores everything that changed in how we build.

The Hoover Dam was built in the amount of time it has taken California to construct a small bridge for cats and butterflies. The Empire State Building was built in about a quarter of the time.

@BarefootStudent How is it possible that in 2026 rental property owners can recieve social security benefits at 62yrs old and rental income at the same time? Seems like an easy fix

67% of Gen Z are struggling to pay for housing, compared with 53–54% of millennials and Gen Xers, and 36% of baby boomers, per Redfin.

@Yellow_Dog1959 @jerseyh0mo Stocks and bonds are liquid investments. Those are fine and help the future. Owning 4 rental properties and a 5 bedroom house while collecting social security does not.

@JuMalcom @jerseyh0mo So I sell my stock and buy bonds. I sell my house and pay a 6% commission and the man buy a smaller place. And how is this supposed to help my kids?

Boomers did this btw. This is the legacy they will leave behind for their descendants: poverty and hardship because they couldn’t make one unselfish decision in their lives

@ForwardFalcon Imagine taking the same classes and getting the same degree at OSU Mansfield as you would at Akron. Why do satellites exist when online classes are being used?

Come up to Northwest Ohio say UT and BGSU are clones and see how that works out for ya.

@DavidPepper OSU fan s will root for Akron because it’s basically the same thing just less prestigious than OSU. Meanwhile 35% of OSU is out of state or foreign students. Consolidate and they can cheer together.

In the coming days, starting tonight, millions of Ohioans will be cheering for Miami, Wright State, OSU and Akron. Ramaswamy? He’s cheering for them to be “consolidated.”