Sooner or later, people will figure out that everyone needs a safe place to sleep.
And they will try to do something about it, and then find, that ALL of their problems in making sure everyone is homed comes from the banksters.
But, along that path, people will figure out that what they are missing is a community. And that community will make sure each of its members/family/friends has a place to sleep. Why let the banksters get involved in the first place?
And, after that, few will want to live in a suburban cracker-jack box.
Cities are bad. They bring out the worst in everyone. (Including making sure there isn't enough houses for everyone) They are only here for the opportunities and convenience. When you bestest friends also have a manufacturing plant in their garage, so, now you have opportunity AND a safe place to sleep.
And, after that, few will want to live in a suburban cracker-jack box.
See where this is going?
Given a choice…
No one likes to live in a giant housing tract where neighbors are on every side an arms length away. With no open space, and a price tag that is getting larger by the day.
So, as soon as there is a choice, many people are going to leave.
Cities, where people form gangs so that they feel a little bit of safety. Unfortunately, the gang often get a psychopath as its head, and then, you have to fight the dangers without and the dangers within. The safety of a gang is not that safe at all.
So, as soon as there is a choice, many people are going to leave.
Being a corporate slave is not what people went into the workforce to be. But it is the funnel that "elite" have created to make sure everyone stays a wage slave. If you want a decent, high paying job, there is no other path except… building your own economy, where you manufacture the things you need by yourself, in your garage. The corporations want your soul, until you are unfit to work, then, you can retire
So, as soon as there is a choice, many people are going to leave.
Many people live a frustratingly lonely life, surrounded by millions of people. There are no real places to go and meet people. All we have is businesses trying to make money. And the demographic that needs the interactions the most, is also the one without money. Young men and women.
We used to have community dances. Where all the young men and women got out to meet everyone else, and perhaps find a partner. These are essential when we lived close, but not that close. And the adults where the ones who had to foot the bill. The young men and women couldn't. However, it is essential for the community to live on. Today, we have none of these places, and we are paying the price with birthrates lower than replacement. The city is hell on people, loneliness is all but guaranteed.
So, as soon as there is a choice, many people are going to leave.
Suburban Cracker-jack boxes no longer wanted
Imagine that huge swaths of suburban homes are left vacant. That there are 10 homes for every buyer. And the buyers are drying up, because all that is left is the lower levels of society. Mostly criminals. Not really petty thieves, but the type of people who do not respect boundaries nor property rights. The kind of people who are shoplifters, who think that that is proper, getting payback, justified. These people will not wait to purchase a home, they will move in when they say many sitting empty, and someone else did it first.
In the past, flight from the bad areas, has always started with those who where most capable. Either via money, or talent, or shear willpower. People with the ability to read the writing on the wall AND the ability to get out. If you haven't noticed, these people are already getting out. Starting homesteads, alone or with a group of friends. These people are living a much happier and fulfilling life. They are never coming back to suburbia. The amount of suburban houses needed has gone down by one. And one. And another one…
And, as people start to comprehend that finding your "family", finding your tribe, is where it is at, that is what people will do. Starting with the path finders, then the builders. And they will build housing that is far stronger, with passive heating and cooling, defensible, comfortable, with sound deadening insulation in between rooms.
In comparison the typical suburban cracker-jack box will be too costly to live in. Imagine a house built to hold 10 individual adults in relative luxury, with places to be alone, and places to be together. And this large house is cheaper to heat and cool than the average cracker-jack box. So, 10x the fuel vs less than 1.
There are soooo many cracker-jack boxes going to be left abandoned.
Demographics
There are soooo many reasons why the cities will become ghost towns, and i haven't even brought up demographics yet.
The boomers, who own 25% of the houses in America, will soon be dumping them on the market. And there is no one to buy them at the current market rate.
25% is a huge percentage. One that a market can rarely survive.
But, it is not all. There will be famine, unCivil Wars, lock-downs, police states, barriers to travel (and shipment), Natural, and unNatural disasters, and don't forget the VAXXX, all causes mortality is still going up. A quarter of the people croaking will be considered normal.
It will be easy to see half of suburbia empty. Two houses for every person. Ten houses for every buyer, if banks and buyers still exist.
Suburban ticky-tacky stick homes will not be worth anything. The real estate market will no longer exist.
From my viewpoint house prices are going to stay high, going down little by little, and then fall to zero.
When the interest rates shot up, the house prices should have dropped 50% to keep them the same level of affordable. But no one wanted to take that kind of hit, so many are still trying to ask for top dollar. Investors who see the writing on the wall, are taking massive hits to price, and selling at huge markdowns.
And, then the banks close. Mortgages become impossible to get, because you have to have good credit and income, AND have to go through one of the six HUGE banks that are left. No more shopping for mortgages. So, it will be hard to qualify, and even harder to find a house that can support the mortgage. And soon after this, people just start moving into empty houses, ignoring property rights, as that part of govern-cement is being shut down, and what is left is overwhelmed.
Every investor will be trying to evict tenants, while the court system is downsizing. It will be YEARS before an eviction hearing gets to trial.
So, from all sides, suburban real estate is just no more. The market will be gone. And even the term "real estate" will be on the chopping block.