Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex (thenation.com)
2023/03/28 09:16AM
The home is no longer seen as a space of personal expression or comfort, or as the backdrop of everyday life, but primarily as an investment and as an asset—meaning that enforcing one’s aesthetics is a financially detrimental decision. Those with the capital to become homeowners (already a diminishing segment of the public) conceive of their houses as being for selling before they even live a day in them.
Curating our personal space for hypothetical mass appeal is dumb and I want to be done with it.