msufan

This is partly about interest rates. People are locked into 3% mortgage rates and can't justify walking away from that to get a mortgage with a 6%+ rate.

As an elementary teacher, my spin on this same take was that you couldn't tell people things with much success, but there were two ways to break through: stories and games. If you could get your message across in story form or have kids discover it through a gamified (or experiential) setting, that generally worked.

Headline: "An alarming number of US homebuyers are underwater"

Reality (deeper in the article): "The portion of underwater mortgages is still historically low..."

We need to keep calling out clickbait titles for what they are.

exactly -- it's almost like the author just made the number up out of thin air or something...

This is from May 2020

This is fantastic. So many times we try to address symptoms like opioid abuse and poverty instead of attacking root causes like a lack of opportunity and jobs. It's fun to see how infrastructure improvement like this can change lives.