Their only real shot at staying housed without a bunch of other retired and poverty stricken roommates is to have already paid off a home. Their financial situation is very likely to never significantly improve again for the rest of their lives.

I dunno why you think old people who didn't save enough for retirement should automatically get to live a good life by making the housing market worse for younger people. When you're poor, life sucks, that's how it is.

What’s the sense in forcing them out of their home

To free up housing stock and keep liquidity and supply in the housing market. To undo the crystallization we see in the market with old people clutching to their houses with all their might. To reduce the overwhelming cost of purchasing ones first home.

Sometimes, when you can't afford something, you need to sell it and get a cheaper version. When that thing is a house, sometimes you need to move away. I see no reason why old people should be exempt from this.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

I dunno why you think old people who didn't save enough for retirement should automatically get to live a good life

Bruh they're on less than $2k/month. They aren't living it up. That's $24k/year. That's a $10/hour full time job. That's poverty wages.

by making the housing market worse for younger people.

There are 28 vacant homes per homeless person in the US. It's not old folks wanting to live in the homes they spent decades in. It's corporate landlords and bad zoning laws.

When you're poor, life sucks, that's how it is.

Only because we let the rich condemn us to it. Productivity is at an all time high. We've basically conquered scarcity. The only real reason to continue allowing poverty is to keep forcing us to serve the owner class.

To free up housing stock and keep liquidity and supply in the housing market. To undo the crystallization we see in the market with old people clutching to their houses with all their might. To reduce the overwhelming cost of purchasing ones first home.

See above on how this isn't their fault.

Sometimes, when you can't afford something, you need to sell it and get a cheaper version. When that thing is a house, sometimes you need to move away.

But they only can't afford it because of taxes. They literally managed to afford the entire house and all the maintenance on it. They can afford the house until we decided our elderly deserve to live on poverty wages while being taxed on their housing. I've already shown that it doesn't even have to be that nice a house. It could very easily be a mediocre house that used to be rural and just got consumed by urban sprawl. So now, in their old age, you want to force them out of that home, which means they'll probably be forced out of their community, which means they'll lose their support network. Which will really fuck them.