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Why Housing Prices Can’t Fall
A sitting U.S. president just said the quiet part out loud.You can’t make housing affordable without knocking prices down,and knocking prices down would wipe out the life savings of tens of millions of people.That single contradiction explains why housing is broken, why politicians are trapped, and why every “solution” avoids the real problem.This video breaks down: • Why housing prices are structurally protected • How homes became savings accounts and retirement plans • Why debt and longer mortgages don’t fix affordability • How the financial system props up housing prices at all costs • And what all of this has to do with broken fiat money and BitcoinValue 4 Value: If you enjoyed this content feel free to zap me some sats via the lightning network: thesatstacker@coinos.io or https://coinos.io/thesatstackerNYKNYC. Buy Bitcoin and withdraw to self custody with Bitcoin Well. Use my referral link for a chance to win free sats: https://bitcoinwell.com/referral/mftabFollow:https://x.com/thesatstackprimal.net/thesatstackerhttps://www.tiktok.com/@thesatstackhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4b58uoQo9Xl7RsbsbbAqAhhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-favorite-thing-about-bitcoin/id1788973938http://fountain.fm/show/YqXJoHuG6qYRBmDW1k37Chapters00:00 – Trump says the quiet part out loud00:54 – The core housing affordability paradox02:00 – Who benefits from rising home prices03:38 – Why falling prices are a systemic risk04:04 – Why zoning & NIMBYs aren’t the root cause05:00 – How housing became monetized06:09 – Why broken money turns homes into assets07:47 – Credit expansion, zero rates, and housing hoarding08:43 – Debt sold as “affordability”10:09 – How mortgages and leverage push prices higher10:58 – Mortgage-backed securities & Fed price support12:18 – Why longer mortgages don’t fix affordability13:09 – 2008 and the lesson policymakers learned15:29 – Sellers vs buyers: why prices still won’t drop17:45 – Why real affordability is not allowed19:00 – The only way out: fixing the money19:52 – Housing is already falling… in Bitcoin
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