@buildthedream

The American Dream isn't dead. It's blocked. Build the Dream is fighting to unblock it.

 Bozeman, Montana
landlibertymovement.org
Joined March 2026
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1/7 Half of Americans are struggling to pay rent or their mortgage. Two-thirds of Gen Z can't afford a place to live. Since 1960, the share of income crushed by housing costs has doubled. Here's what actually happened.
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Restrict supply. Subsidize demand. Act surprised when prices explode.
Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus)@_Credible_HulkOct 16
Americans: Housing is too expensive. Economists: Build more housing. Politicians: Best I can do is make it illegal to build housing, subsidize demand, and blame BlackRock. And somehow the economists are the controversial ones.
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Our newest episode with Larry Sharpe is out now.
Build The Dream
@buildthedreamOct 15
New York used to be the place you went to become somebody. Now a lot of people leave to do it. We sat down with @LarrySharpe to talk about why rent is so high in New York and what a rent freeze really does.
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Some things are too good not to RT
WheedleMeThis@WheedleMeThisOct 14
Replying to @LoveCodeTrade
@LoveCodeTrade
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New York used to be the place you went to become somebody. Now a lot of people leave to do it. We sat down with @LarrySharpe to talk about why rent is so high in New York and what a rent freeze really does.
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For 70 years in most of America, you could own a half acre and still be legally barred from putting a small second home on it. Not because it was unsafe. Because the code said one house per lot . Utah just ended that. Since October 1, if your lot is over 11,000 square feet, a backyard home is a permitted use. No hearing, no neighbor veto, no conditional use permit. Orem spent last night rewriting its definitions to match. That’s what winning looks like. No program, no subsidy. A state just stopped cities from saying no. Every state could do this tomorrow.
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It's not a housing shortage. It's a shortage of affordable homes where people actually want to live.
QE Infinity
@StealthQE4Oct 14
This is the problem in the housing market right now The sellers can’t afford to sell at the prices the buyers are offering With rates at 7-1/2% the amount a buyer can afford to pay is simply a lot lower than it was 5 years ago when rates were at 3%.
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A recession is necessary. Here's our case. Think of it as a hangover. As a country, we keep reaching the morning after, and instead of sobering up, we pour another drink. We did it in 2001, 2008, and 2020. Getting healthy means cutting spending instead of adding more. In housing, that means letting people build single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, and apartments over shops, without a planning commission, a zoning board, or a neighbor holding a veto. Homes get affordable when people are allowed to build them.
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This isn't to tell anyone "boo hoo things are expensive." This was just as hard to say as it is to hear. But at some point you can't keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results. That's just insanity.
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A builder wants to build townhomes. The city holds a hearing. Neighbors show up to oppose it. The people who would live there don’t get a vote. That’s how local zoning makes housing less affordable.
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David Rand
@David_Rand_Oct 12
Socialists are masters of the no-true-Scotsman fallacy: they define socialism as "when the government does a thing I like motivated by concern for poor people" and "capitalism" as "anything in the status quo, regardless of how it came about, that I don't like."
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If we had the freedom to build we'd discover the real preferences for apartment design.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
@UrbanCourtyardOct 12
Apartments like these are not pure market preference They are the result of parking minimums, zoning law, egress codes, elevator code, etc
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Apartments like these are not pure market preference They are the result of parking minimums, zoning law, egress codes, elevator code, etc
Kenny🔆⏹️@gaslightyourmomOct 11
Car centric apartment complexes in the suburbs are the worst type of housing ever devised. No walkability but also no land to yourself
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Leading Report
@LeadingReportOct 10
U.S. housing affordability may be at its worst level on record as mortgage rates surge, per MarketWatch.
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Steve Rattner
@SteveRattnerOct 9
Sun Belt cities are building housing roughly three times as fast as blue state metropolises.
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unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 9
BREAKING: The ability of U.S. families to stay current on their debts worsened over the past three years, hitting levels not seen since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, per CNBC
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Students For Liberty
@sflibertyOct 10
He wanted free public transportation paid for by taxing billionaires. Then we asked where the money comes from... This was at our Open Mind, Open Mic event, and we’re coming to more campuses. Stay tuned!
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If your bills went up 5% and your pay got frozen, how long would you last? This June, New York froze rent on about 1 million apartments while the cost of running those buildings rose more than 5%. When the money doesn’t cover the repairs, the repairs stop.
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Interesting to see Canada moving toward preemption and property rights too.
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SpaceElevator
@SpaceElevator7Oct 9
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Whether or not you can build an apartment building should not be subject to direct democracy.
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He gets it.
WOLF
@WOLF_FinancialOct 9
JEFF BEZOS SAYS HIGH HOUSING PRICES COME DOWN TO "ECON 101" He says affordability problems are real. Young people look at home prices and think they'll have to live two hours from their job. But he says a lot of government intervention in housing has made things worse. "If you put in place government programs that subsidize demand and constrain supply, you are going to get high prices." His counterexample is Austin, which he says made it easier to build over the last 10 years and now has housing prices going down.
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