Play house with Monopoly. Our homes are not your damn business

The comment does not dispute a single figure: it discredits the person discussing housing based on their origin. In economics, access is decided by income, credit and supply, not by where someone once bought a bag of crisps.

A post circulating on **X** attacks a woman discussing housing based on her origin. It mocks her for never having bought so much as a bag of crisps in **Colombia**. There is no date or figure: only national belonging used as an argument.

The text assumes there are homes that are "ours" and that other people should not get a say. In economics, housing is allocated through prices, mortgages, wages and land. Nationality does not set the rent.

## Origin as an argument

Housing does not stop being an economic issue because the person raising it was born in another country. The market does not ask about the buyer's nationality: it asks about a guarantor, a payslip and a term.

Without data, origin works as a shield to avoid discussing rents, land or construction. And that does not make a rent cheaper or build a single flat.

## What the market actually measures

To know who sustains housing, you need purchases, rents, taxes and the weight of each group. The post offers none of these. It does not distinguish ownership, renting and occupation either.

Discussing housing with slurs about origin leaves out supply, prices, credit and wages. The question is not who may speak, but who can pay. For housing policy, better to look at official data.