Brownie Stonecipher

why would housing prices continue to rise if you're deporting undocumented immigrants? i was told they're the reason why housing prices are high.

@SportsSturm Downtown Dallas is great. I don’t actually believe that’s the only reason you want to keep them there - I was being facetious. The reality is that there is only so much space in downtown Dallas - and north of Dallas is one of, if not the fastest growing areas in the country.

@browniels I can assure you the concept of downtown stadiums is not contingent on my employment location. Let’s have grown up discussions without looking for some nefarious agenda below the surface. Stadiums are not to be 20-30 miles from the city center.

It’s so ridiculous. We just got the pregame scene down Victory Park right. Took 2 decades but restaurants with tons of Stars fans gearing up for a game. An alive scene. And now they want to move the whole thing 30 miles up the tollway. Hard pass. Stay here. It’s awesome now.

Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.

Toll roads in Texas seems to be getting higher and higher. I know people that pay 21.00 a day round trip to drive to work 5 days a week. Heard that some toll roads are owned by foreign companies in Texas. How are they allowed to do that?

@BulwarkOnline @Timodc @SarahLongwell25 Yeah I’m out on the Bulwark

"I could think of 1000 other things I would rather Democrats pick fights about now. Like, why him right now?" "Because he's making their life harder." @Timodc and @SarahLongwell25 spar over one of the biggest questions facing Democrats right now: what to do about Hasan Piker?

@SarahLongwell25 @hissgoescobra Why are you responding to misinformation? You are a journalist.

@hissgoescobra I do!

@SarahLongwell25 Piker’s anti-Ukraine, pro-CCP stuff is a primary concern few address. It’d be good to have analysis or dialogue on that in this discussion.

@SarahLongwell25 Definitely better than your take!

This is a good take.

Thinking you need $100k to buy a house and also going from a $2500 rental to a $4000 mortgage is quite the imaginative scenario.

Absolutely incredible: The US 20Y Note Yield is now above 5.00%. At the current pace, we will have 7% mortgages and $4.00 gas prices this week. Talk about a turn of events.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

This is a ban on institutional investors, NOT “investors”. Institutional investors own less than 2% of homes in America. This will do little to nothing for the housing market.

In the legislation, investors are considered individuals or corporate entities which already own 350 homes or more. cnbc.com/2026/03/12/hou…

@unusual_whales This is not a ban on “investors” this is a ban on institutional investors. Institutional investors own less than 2% of homes. This will change very little.

BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes, per MorePerfectUnion

@jim_desmond Yes, let’s make another break for the people who are profiting over $500k on a single home sale. This is what the American economy truly needs….

Seniors are sitting in 4-bedroom homes their kids grew up in — not because they want to, but because selling means getting crushed by capital gains taxes. Eliminate that tax. Put money back in their pockets. Give them a reason to downsize. That opens up family-sized homes for the next generation — without building a single new unit. Then pair it with down payment assistance so young families can actually afford to buy. It's that simple: Help seniors move. Help families move in. Put money back in people's pockets instead of taking more out.

@MikeAus27326108 @twinkdefcon Sounds like a dog shit professional, who hired him?

@twinkdefcon MFs don’t be doing shit. We’re literally dragging this guy across the finish line so he can get his commission

@gringoathome @average_down_ @twinkdefcon Then why do title companies beg and plead for realtors to bring them business all the time?

@average_down_ @twinkdefcon the effing title company does that heavy lifting. 1 day contracts -- realtor.

@lbk_enjoyer @twinkdefcon Great, thorough explanation there.

@twinkdefcon Mom is a realtor. Asked why someone needs one and it’s literally just because of some government bullshit that keeps real estate afloat.

We allow this because we have the First Amendment in America and more freedom of land use in Texas than most other states have. Both of which are good things.