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Housing Collapse and Getting Age-Gated by YouTube

from #303 - Meeting In The Woods | The Tim Dillon Show · #303

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Tim covers the collapsing housing market and mortgage applications before explaining how a previous episode's satirical joke about boiling homeless people got the show age-restricted on YouTube.

In this bit5 moments
  • Tim describes the housing market collapse: mortgage applications down over 40%, building at lowest levels in decades, rates above 6%.
  • He projects LA's homeless population will balloon from 40,000 to 3-4 million within two years due to housing unaffordability.
  • Rick Caruso's campaign to put homeless people in affordable housing lost because voters rejected the premise entirely.
  • Tim's previous episode got age-gated by YouTube over a satirical comment that he says led to an appeal he lost.
  • YouTube acknowledged the boiling homeless people joke was satire but still deemed it inappropriate for under-18 viewers despite being comedy.
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