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Get your phone out and call your representatives in the congress right now and tell them to change the NIMBY law that restricts constructions. Build more buildi
by nullnilvoid 9y ago
Get your phone out and call your representatives in the congress right now and tell them to change the NIMBY law that restricts constructions. Build more buildings if people like them. Don't restrict them.
- mistermann 9y agoA multi-year process with absolutely no guarantee of success. Or, you can control demand through regulations, as many countries already do.
- nullnilvoid 9y agoIt took multiple years for housing prices to go up. It did not happen overnight. If you don't try, there is no chance.
- mistermann 9y agoOr, you could control demand and be done with it in very short order. I'm not saying you can't build your way out of it, but waiting a decade for supply/demand to come back into some reasonable balance (maybe!!) isn't exactly "no big deal" to families just trying to get by.
- nullnilvoid 9y agoWhy can't you suppress your own craving for houses? Why do you want to regulate other people so that you can buy low-priced houses? The market is sending a clear message by increasing prices that we should build more houses. Why do you want to suppress that with regulations? It is economics 101 and how capitalism works.
- mistermann 9y agoYou're asking why someone wants to own a house? Where to start with that. And it's s far from Econ 101.
- nullnilvoid 9y agoYou have not answered my questions. Why control other people's demand while you don't control your own?