I applaud your efforts in the fight against misinformation. With the lack of scrutiny we so often see nowadays we can certainly use people like you keeping our "journalists" careful and honest. Keep up the good work!
Please keep up the good work. recently in Australia we had a census, from the data produced journalists made the claim that there was 1 million unnocupied homes in australia on census night. which was probably true, but it was sensationalised into being a major factor for high rents and people took it to mean investors were deliberately leaving properties empty to force up rents. Not one sane journalist corrected the obvious misinterpretation of the facts (gotta sell the news). On census night you have to do the census from wherever you are. so if you are on holidays your home is listed as vacant that night. say you are in the process of making a sale then that property is vacant, perhaps its getting a major renovation - vacant. perhaps a bitter divorce - vacant, perhaps its an estate being settled, vacant. there are thousands of reasons why a house may be vacant on census night. However, when I raised all these reasons on social media, I don't ever recall getting a "oh you may be right" just a lot of ridicule.
Oh gosh - it’s not my field but I’d say it probably varies by city/town so like local realtors would be familiar with local markets and economists would be familiar with national data- the census and HUD have some data, American Housing Survey, PEW also has collected some of this data…,
It's called critical thinking. I took a critical thinking class in HIGH SCHOOL so it baffles me when no one uses it. I'm pretty sure it was an elective, though. It's so sad that half the idiots out there could be better people with one high school class.
Seems to me then that journalists need to have laws imposed on them to stop any and all opinion pieces with the intention of misleading the reader into believing it's anything but an opinion and also to prevent any articles being written with misleading headlines or propaganda. It's not necessarily the readers fault, it's the journalists desperately seeking clicks to keep their jobs relevant. It needs to stop.
I have brought this up before and I have always been slapped with the argument that any type of law pertaining to official news networks on any medium was a slippery slope to oppression. While it is very difficult to counter that very vague and ominous point, I can't believe we can not come up with some type of simple and transparent wording for a regulation to hold "official news" sources accountable. Hell, I would be happy with just a simple requirement that all media that labels itself as news sources must cite 100% sources, 100% of the time. Just that alone would cause several major "news" networks to impode.
I get the impulse, but the problem becomes who will decide what is propaganda or misinformation? The people who assured us the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian Disinformation? The people who assured us that COVID couldn't possibly have come from the Wuhan lab? The people who said those pointing out flaws in Jussie Smollett's story were despicable racists spreading lies? People like Kirsten rebutting false stories letting people decide who to believe will promote truth more surely than some law punishing whoever some authority deems to be spreading misinformation or propaganda.
@@liberalideas8224 I can't believe the number the legacy Media did on you all, you are seriously actively calling for an end to freedom of speech. Imagine an administration you don't agree with (so far your agreeing with the Nazi party btw) and they don't believe you should have commented a ridiculous comment like the one you just did, they can and will come after you all because you, YOU, and people like you give them the power to suppress.
30% of flips? No. Still not an issue. I'm a real estate appraiser. Fannie Mae and the banks do have to unload their non-performing loans, and Fannie Mae in particular typically does unload them to institutional investors in large large blocks of homes, but these loans are a tiny fraction of all loans (less than 2%, though it did get over 2% during the Great Recession). And they don't sit on them to rent out; they flip them or wholesale them to other flippers, who in turn sell to regular home buyers. I know this because I review the sales history of every subject property and listing and I read the names of all the sellers recorded. It's not even close to 5% in my market. I don't know how it is on the coasts, but every in middle America is the same.
If they were vacant for at least a month on that date, it would be a problem. If you only know that were vacant on that day, that just an observation that invites a closer look.
I applaud your efforts in the fight against misinformation. With the lack of scrutiny we so often see nowadays we can certainly use people like you keeping our "journalists" careful and honest. Keep up the good work!
Aw thank you so much!!
Amazing! Thank you for the informative and educational video 👏👏
Didg deeper, this lady's explanation is wrong.
Please elaborate!! I'm so curious which part is wrong.
@kirstenleehill do the research.
Please keep up the good work. recently in Australia we had a census, from the data produced journalists made the claim that there was 1 million unnocupied homes in australia on census night. which was probably true, but it was sensationalised into being a major factor for high rents and people took it to mean investors were deliberately leaving properties empty to force up rents. Not one sane journalist corrected the obvious misinterpretation of the facts (gotta sell the news).
On census night you have to do the census from wherever you are. so if you are on holidays your home is listed as vacant that night. say you are in the process of making a sale then that property is vacant, perhaps its getting a major renovation - vacant. perhaps a bitter divorce - vacant, perhaps its an estate being settled, vacant. there are thousands of reasons why a house may be vacant on census night. However, when I raised all these reasons on social media, I don't ever recall getting a "oh you may be right" just a lot of ridicule.
Wait what??? That’s wild!! That should absolutely be included as context!!!!!!! Omg. (And thank you!)
Okay, so I've been digging deeper. And I've found nothing. Where can I get the real stats?
Oh gosh - it’s not my field but I’d say it probably varies by city/town so like local realtors would be familiar with local markets and economists would be familiar with national data- the census and HUD have some data, American Housing Survey, PEW also has collected some of this data…,
It's called critical thinking. I took a critical thinking class in HIGH SCHOOL so it baffles me when no one uses it. I'm pretty sure it was an elective, though. It's so sad that half the idiots out there could be better people with one high school class.
Tbh my high school definitely didn’t have that class.
@kirstenleehill Must have been too woke. 😂
Nope just public.
@@kirstenleehill wow mine was a public high school as well. I'm assuming your school didn't fund this, is what I'm trying to say.
Likely much worse in reality
Seems to me then that journalists need to have laws imposed on them to stop any and all opinion pieces with the intention of misleading the reader into believing it's anything but an opinion and also to prevent any articles being written with misleading headlines or propaganda. It's not necessarily the readers fault, it's the journalists desperately seeking clicks to keep their jobs relevant. It needs to stop.
This wasn’t even an opinion piece. 🤦🏻♀️
I have brought this up before and I have always been slapped with the argument that any type of law pertaining to official news networks on any medium was a slippery slope to oppression. While it is very difficult to counter that very vague and ominous point, I can't believe we can not come up with some type of simple and transparent wording for a regulation to hold "official news" sources accountable. Hell, I would be happy with just a simple requirement that all media that labels itself as news sources must cite 100% sources, 100% of the time. Just that alone would cause several major "news" networks to impode.
I get the impulse, but the problem becomes who will decide what is propaganda or misinformation? The people who assured us the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian Disinformation? The people who assured us that COVID couldn't possibly have come from the Wuhan lab? The people who said those pointing out flaws in Jussie Smollett's story were despicable racists spreading lies?
People like Kirsten rebutting false stories letting people decide who to believe will promote truth more surely than some law punishing whoever some authority deems to be spreading misinformation or propaganda.
You mean shit on the freedom of speech! Na fuck that shit.
@@liberalideas8224
I can't believe the number the legacy Media did on you all, you are seriously actively calling for an end to freedom of speech.
Imagine an administration you don't agree with (so far your agreeing with the Nazi party btw) and they don't believe you should have commented a ridiculous comment like the one you just did, they can and will come after you all because you, YOU, and people like you give them the power to suppress.
Sure, but what are the real numbers? 30% would still be a massive problem
30% of flips? No. Still not an issue. I'm a real estate appraiser. Fannie Mae and the banks do have to unload their non-performing loans, and Fannie Mae in particular typically does unload them to institutional investors in large large blocks of homes, but these loans are a tiny fraction of all loans (less than 2%, though it did get over 2% during the Great Recession). And they don't sit on them to rent out; they flip them or wholesale them to other flippers, who in turn sell to regular home buyers. I know this because I review the sales history of every subject property and listing and I read the names of all the sellers recorded. It's not even close to 5% in my market. I don't know how it is on the coasts, but every in middle America is the same.
If they were vacant for at least a month on that date, it would be a problem. If you only know that were vacant on that day, that just an observation that invites a closer look.
Great question - and I think that's one of the big issues here. They don't share the real numbers. Just try to generate panic over inaccurate ones.
You had me at Business Insider as a source. They're pure clickbait trash.
😂😂😂