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That "commoditization of housing" is a growing buzzword that doesn't make sense on face value. Commoditization is to make it fungible and easy to exchange. Housing developments, apartments, and condos go with interchangeable ones. Since the industrial revolution at least housing has been born commoditized as a norm. Economies of scale are king.

If what the talking point is just trying to sinisterize "private ownership of real estate" that still doesn't make sense as an approach. It just gets squatters and promotes violence through greviances unresolvable through the legal system like how prohibition leads to drug gang fights.




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