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Gambling using housing as gaming pieces was fun in monopoly. Then late-night TV started encouraging people to do that in real life.

Until there is an affordable HOME for all US citizens who need one, we in the US need to stop thinking of them as HOUSES and stop them being used as gambling chips.

As for public-housing, it needs to be permanently off-limits to speculative investing. Otherwise why should the well-intentioned public agree to investing their tax dollars in public housing? Ownership of these HOMES should only be available to people eligible for public-housing.




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