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0 pointsmacspoofing6y ago0 comments

Or make housing a commodity.

>make building affordable units a higher roi than building luxury units, etc.

Every luxury unit that is built lessens the pressure on housing demand.

So the key is: just build more housing.

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Pfhreak6y ago

> Every luxury unit that is built lessens the pressure on housing demand.

That's true. We need to build more units. But for the price of one luxury unit we could have 1.N affordable units.

Also, building luxury units often displaces existing residents and replaces them. Yes that might be necessary, but it also should be humane -- it's not acceptable to just evict everyone on a block and shrug. We need to be aware of the impact of evicting families in the name of progress.

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