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With regard to topic 1, you're saying supply and demand should set the price in a natural way. But regulating the use of land owned by others interferes with t
by doublement 7y ago
With regard to topic 1, you're saying supply and demand should set the price in a natural way. But regulating the use of land owned by others interferes with the natural operation of supply and demand. Established homeowners create regulations to prevent developers from increasing supply to meet the demand, on land the developers have fairly purchased or can purchase on the open market.
With regard to topic 2, no community has the legal right to exclude anyone from moving there. If it makes economic sense for newcomers to arrive, they will arrive. If supply and demand were allowed to operate, homes would be built for them as they arrived. Instead the wealthiest members of the community interfere with supply, for their own benefit, and the least fortunate members of the community are evicted.
(I'm disregarding the homeless shelter in the Amish community because it's a contrived example. It's too far removed from any actual set of conflicting interests to have much bearing.)