From HousingWire:
The impact of job cuts on the DC housing market
Is the Washington, D.C. housing market facing a sudden collapse ignited by DOGE’s job-cutting? A whirlwind of social media posts from dubious figures has sparked speculation that a large influx of inventory is hitting the market. Could this be a tipping point that sends the D.C. housing scene into a tailspin? Is there already a crash underway?
Let’s first examine the national inventory data. This has always been a key indicator for housing as we move toward normalcy. Although inventory levels are not yet back to average, it’s encouraging to note that we are significantly above the all-time low inventory level of 240,497, recorded in March 2022. We experienced a slight increase in inventory last week and we can anticipate the typical spring surge soon.
- Weekly inventory change (Feb. 7-Feb. 14): Inventory rose from 632,367 to 637,991
- The same week last year (Feb. 9-Feb. 16): Inventory fell from 494,819 to 493,987
- The all-time inventory bottom was in 2022 at 240,497
- The inventory peak for 2024 was 739,434
- For some context, active listings for the same week in 2015 were 954,581
Now let’s look at the DC Metro housing market and see if we can see any signs of the massive inventory surge that’s trending on social media. So far, it looks like we’re not seeing it materialize.
The inventory in the DC metro housing market isn’t much higher than the COVID-19 inventory lows. Remember to be careful when listening to people who have never tracked housing economics. When working from such a low base, inventory exploding higher will be easy to see, much like what we saw in the 2018 data, so if and when it happens, we’ll know.
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Washington Post has article on DOGExcrement’s plans that got leaked to them.
First wave of attack publicly is on DEI, but they are moving to eviscerate law requires offices line EEO and Antidiscrimation not only for employees but for the public.
OrangeTurd/Project2025’s goal is to make Federal Government only responsive to red staters. This looks to be accomplished by emptying out illegally the enforcement mechanisms by July.
They plan to start hiring new employees from the ideologically vetted Heritage Foundation list, those hires will have Carte Blanche to act according to the christian nationalist agenda. Think how the women in the movie “Hidden Figures” got treated.
Finally, whatever OrangeTurd says about China and Russian agreement is bs. We are going into this “deal” with severely compromised intelligence services that are blinded by OrangeTurd ideology that the enemy is inside instead of outside. This is what you expected from the West German political parties that were comprised by KGB, Staatsi during the Cold War.
The optimistic view is that if the USA is going to be come an authoritarian tech driven theocratic sadistic corporatist society. Then is best that we become weak enough to be the English speaking apartheid South Africa equivalent of North America.
Russia agreement is bull shite. That war isn’t stopping any time soon.
Vlad was KGB. He understands Trump.
It’s all a diversion.
RentL0rd says:
February 16, 2025 at 4:38 am
“Agree with impeachment”
The only ‘strategy’ the Dems have — if you can’t beat him, impeach him!
In other news, limp-wristed leftists like Rant, Unstable and their new friend with the rambling names, must be appalled to see our new and energetic, SecDef doing physical training with the troops at 06:00; they’re used to Dem SecDef’s that spend their time recruiting trannies — when they’re not AWOL. You dopes should just take a 4 year nap!
So, Nicky boy, you have been directly been taking government money. Boo f’n hoo. You voted red 84% of the time over history.
Get off your azz and find a market for your product. Go get some chickens and have them lay some eggs. Chinese ain’t buying your stuff thanks to tariffs. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Or maybe your “boy” has bigger plans for you, bankrupt your farms and let the other Oligarch, Bill Gates, buy up the rest of the farmland in the USA since he already owns plenty, I’m sure he would like to corner the food supply completely in the USA just like he jams Cortina and Teams down our throats.
Despite courts ordering Trump to unfreeze funds and immediately halt the layoffs of 2,200 employees at USAID, farmers are expressing unease over still not getting federal dollars they were counting on while also losing one of their biggest customers.
Nick Levendofsky, an executive director with the Kansas Farmers Union, said the farmers he represents ‘are waiting with bated breath’ to see if USAID can somehow be saved or rolled into another government agency.
‘Here in Kansas, we’re a major producer of grain sorghum, which is one of the main crops that is purchased for USAID, and in fact, a lot of the grain sorghum that is grown in Kansas goes directly into this program,’
Opinion piece in the WSJ, A Valentine For Unhappy Liberals. According to the research carried out by a University of Virginia sociologist, young conservative women are much happier than young liberal women. Young liberal women are generally lonely and sad.
3b,
Why shouldn’t they be? There are advantages to being a stay at home mother. You know, like not having to work.
Edward Bernay’s controlling tactics, just like his system encouraged women to smoke, also encouraged them to think working was going to be freedom for them.
Now they bust their azzes and can’t afford a house, only rent and drink Starbuks to drown out the drivel and tears from working.
No wonder the “Trad Wife” is coming back. Hey Ashley St. Clair pulled it off, at 21 set her eyesight on Elon Musk and in five years got him to penetrate and inseminate her.
She got on the gravy train at 25, and gonna ride that beech to the end of the line. YEEEEE HAWWWW!
Ain’t nothing near I live that any terrorist want’s to blow up. I’m feelin’ good.
I’ll just watch it on the evening news, popcorn in hand.
My time is almost up on this planet. Amazing how the older generation fucced things up so bad. It was flower power and peace movement then. I guess you call that hope.
Now it’s all just a weird shite show. I know at some time there will be a photo of Musk humping a goat or something. It’s just what America does.
The United States spends nearly $10 billion annually on foreign security assistance. More than half goes to Israel, Egypt and Ukraine, all three of which received exemptions from the spending freeze. Meanwhile, other American security partners in Africa and the Middle East, which receive a much smaller share of the foreign aid budget, have seen vital security programs grind to a halt.
https://foreignassistance.gov/
That’s where my money goes
To buy my baby clothes
I buy her everything to keep her in style, well, well, well…
She’ worth her wait in gold
I buy her everything
Say boys that where my money goes, goes, goes, goes
There ain’t enough ballast in the keel of the USS America to keep it upright anymore.
The Constitution has been trampled on by the government so many times it’s practically unreadable.
Every empire comes to an end, the curtain has to close at some point, the toe tag has to go on.
You did it boomer. Take credit. It was your hate and greed. All that hard work by the founding fathers, you managed to fuccc up something so good in just a few years.
We have yet to see if you go one step further and start a nuclear war. I wouldn’t put it past you.
Smallman, I would like to see a coherent thought from you that does not involve dissing a democrat or two. What a peanut brain! Thing bigger.
I wonder how the economic model I pasted yesterday would change if the data from the leaked Wapo DEI report is fed to it. I may not have the stomach to see the results.
3b
I suspect young liberals have been trained to always feel victimized and see the world in black and white instead of mostly shades of gray.
Hold: Perhaps. The article says they are typically alone and sad. I don’t know, but I will say, and just an observation, but people who say they are liberal seem to be very angry, always upset and out raged by something.
12:01 paintings with a broad brush I see…
Many liberals will be just as happy to make you the victim.
Remember, it’s a big tent!
12:11 if you aren’t outraged – then you’ve been living under a rock.
The question is what is your trigger?? When you talk about liberals living alone, does that count the massive number of bitter divorced men who would love too see women be put in their place?
A whole nation of easily manipulated rubes looking for reasons to validate their person failures.
Wasn’t yesterday that everyone on Fox news and their loyal followers were fjming their red necks off?
Hold, they definitely are being trained this way, probably inadvertently. My kids probably once a month try to claim victim status on some sort of issue (school, sports, whatever). We have to constantly call them out on it.
Daytona 500 today, kids.
Air Force One is in approach as I write.
LAC
Try. I just think people who are always looking to be offended are probably also very stressed too about accidentally saying or doing something to offend a group they are supposedly allies/supporters of. But there are lots of cranky conservatives too.
That’s LAX. My phone keeps changing lax to lac.
Another potential joy of commuting on a bus or train to nyc
https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/us-news/suspected-ebola-exposure-at-nyc-urgent-care-as-hazmat-crews-on-scene-sources/
LAX: I think it’s a question of what to really be outraged about. If someone is outraged over everything and anything, then outrage loses its meaning if that makes any sense. That said I know there are certainly conservatives that are outraged about everything and anything, and complaining about people on welfare, meanwhile they have spent their adult lives scheming and scamming, and doing the bare minimum. A few of them I know are outright evil in what they are doing, and that’s no exaggerating on my part.
A $300K valentine gift to the most eligible batchelor Luigi Mangione
https://people.com/luigi-mangione-grateful-for-support-in-first-statement-after-alleged-ceo-murder-11680544?
I am surprised there is no $LUIGI meme coin
Bachelor. Can’t spell today
Need some help, have a nice $300k condo in Orlando, Florida, paid in full with no mortgage. Need a $150k loan against the condo as collateral. One bank needs 30 days to put a loan together, but I want the loan in a few days. Anyone have a lender connection, or other advice?
Condo,
https://lo.primelending.com/bryan.luckner/
Bryan did my loan for chase in 2010 or 2011 when the idiots at the Chase central office kept screwing things up. He took care of everything himself and did their jobs for them to make it work. When I went to refinance in 2020, Chase was jerking me around in interest rates offering me 4% when market is offering 2.3%. I called him up at the mortgage company he was working at and we had it set up in a day and refinanced was complete pretty quickly. He’s now at Prime Lending in East Brunswick.
BRT, thanks very much!
Rocket Loan once hooked us up in 24 hours all done online.
Condo, I like this guy. Small shop, well funded.
https://approvedfunding.com/shmuel/
you don’t have to be a liberal to feel victimized. There are whole classes of people who have been victimized either by religion or race. Deny that that’s true.
just cause you Perceive, you are victimized doesn’t mean you are. On the other hand, you can be part of a group that some members were actually victimized, but you’re not, and then you ride that train.
you know my great great granddaddy was victimized so I’m still victimized.
Are you?
Perhaps you are. Or perhaps you are not
Here’s one for your next trip Grim.
Tom Bonier @tbonier
This is terrifying. Most obviously, it seems that flying in this country will become increasingly dangerous. Beyond that, if true, the dogebros are firing experienced, difficult to replace federal employees because AI doesn’t understand how the “probationary” term works.
https://x.com/tbonier/status/1891247046926962907
Gestapo
https://youtu.be/xZcjOey7CfE?si=br91RCHHvuwib14G
Fabius
at least it’s a quick Death. Maybe 30 seconds Or so of screaming and terror, but that’s it.
“must be appalled to see our new and energetic, SecDef doing physical training with the troops at 06:00”
I’m sure you must be clutching your pearls seeing him booed by military families.
https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/1891256511340364141
Occam’s Razor
Andrew—New YouTube Channel @LiveFromTheResistance @AmoneyResists
This is exactly correct. Trump and Musk made a deal to keep each other out of jail. We now have two corrupt illegitimate Russian-owned oligarchs destroying us from the inside. When is our intelligence community and military going to remove these traitorous fucking criminals?
https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/1891256511340364141
When is our intelligence community and military going to remove these traitorous fucking criminals?
Threat to our democracy bro