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This being just a few lines down from a story on housing being unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans in 99% of the country is...well.
by grungydan 3y ago
This being just a few lines down from a story on housing being unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans in 99% of the country is...well.
- tim333 3y agoThey are different issues really. Housing is due to prior low interest rates and a restricted supply, not people living a bit long.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoImagine how constricted the supply would be if people lived 50% longer and stayed in their homes for 40 years more than they do today.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoNow imagine what would happen if we built 50% more houses.
- 7e 3y agoWe would soon breed 50% more people. Building more houses reduces housing costs like building more highways reduces traffic.
- throwaway9274 3y agoSure. But more people is good. More traffic is bad.
- satvikpendem 3y ago> We would soon breed 50% more people Not really, fertility rate is going down worldwide regardless of housing costs. Turns out rich families don't need or want as many children as those working the farm.
- ChristianGeek 3y agoHmm, reminds me of a certain movie…
- thghtihadanacct 3y ago... or paid to relocate individuals to places with houses. People dont like to talk about all the empty houses in less than desirable places. Rather, state governments and large businesses talk about needing to build housing everywhere cuz money.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoWhere are those houses? Where are the jobs that go with those houses?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoIf there are more people in a place, there will be more demand for workers in the place to support the people, no? If this is not sufficient we need to look at making places less dependent on centralized specialist geographic areas, because that approach does not scale well.
- davkan 3y agoYou can’t put the cart before the horse. There needs to be job prospects in order to relocate.
- thghtihadanacct 3y agoYou certainly can, thats what subsidies are for. Put the jobs back, incentivize corporations to revamp decrepit towns. Like Klamath, a beautiful old city that fell into disrepair because logging and mining gone ... people didnt leave because it was unlivable. Tax breaks for revitalizing a town and tariffs for any virgin ground broken.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoI know this is borderline ad hominem, but your arguments feel so far from reality that it's hard to discuss in any detail. Yes, worker demand would go up, but that would only be for a portion of jobs. Imagine you have a small, desktop ant farm with fixed supply of food. You add an additional 10x ants to that farm. Sure, some of the new ants will collect food for the queen, but what do the rest of the ants do? The colony doesn't have any additional food source, they were already surviving with 10x less ants. Likewise, whether or not centralized geographic areas scale well doesn't really matter. What matters is how all other options scale - and they scale worse. ---- I've lived in rural America for the past decade for my wife's job. I've been fortunate to be able to work remotely, but without that I'd likely be unemployed or far underemployed. There just aren't job opportunities for me in small towns.
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- Paul-Craft 3y agoI'm not on enough drugs right now to be able to imagine that happening.
- adversaryIdiot 3y agounaffordable housing isnt a supply and demand issue. its an investor issue
- mensetmanusman 3y agoOld billionaires are a net good for society.
- renewedrebecca 3y agoOnly if we tax the absolute daylights out of them.