| ▲ | russdill 2 hours ago |
| Housing is not a finite resource. Not building more housing is a choice. |
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| ▲ | invalidOrTaken 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| people don't buy "housing." They buy views, they buy location, they buy neighborhood character. There are perfectly good houses in Nebraska---yet people aren't swarming to Nebraska. It's not because there's anything wrong with the housing. |
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| ▲ | lunarboy an hour ago | parent [-] | | This is the point the "just build more supply" folks never mention. Close to markets, water, aesthetically pleading single family houses on land. Like there's a reason housing crisis only happens in popular cities, because well, they're popular for a reason. Also people shit on zoning laws (yes they could be better), but I'm sure they dont want to live in hong kong style back to back concrete mega apartments with no parks |
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| ▲ | blfr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes but it also has a pretty long lead time so continued mass immigration always drives up the price. It's true of most hard infrastructure. |
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| ▲ | hirako2000 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's mostly due to absurdly difficult to get permits. A benefactor decided to solve the housing crisis, created a development company. Gave up 2 years later. Stating the legal burden to get permits was the biggest financial obstacle. We are ready to build from the start, 2 years later we still couldn't build and spend most of our capital in lawyers in hope to get any approval. | |
| ▲ | russdill 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which makes cutting back on immigration a short term solution. | | |
| ▲ | cloverich 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Population growth is driven largely by immigration though. | | | |
| ▲ | test6554 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, if the goal is fewer people, then there are many many nefarious ways to achieve that. | | |
| ▲ | russdill 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Really with birthrates the way they are going, unless radical life extension comes soon it's going to be a problem that "solves itself". | |
| ▲ | vrganj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | We could also just do a good ol' fashioned culling! |
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| ▲ | monideas an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Housing (in a given area) is a finite resource and not building more housing (in a given area) is a choice. |
