[Hondaracer]

Because people would rather live among their garbage in a home they know then even consider leaving that home, even when they have millions in equity.

It’s kind of ironic because this is so prevalent in the Chinese community where “saving face” is so important. I guess living in a crumbling detached home and using the food bank is better than living in a brand new condo and eating actual groceries.

There are numerous ways to pull this equity out of the home in order to survive. It’s not hard. People are just ignorant to those ways and think taking on a loan later in life in order to live comfortably is the end of the world and would rather eat cat food then talk to the bank