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Supporting evidence is needed to support the idea that 'the market' could be, but isn't, solving something that is endemically not being solved. "Someone built

• davidw 10y ago
  > something that is endemically not being solved. It is "not being solved" in a system that bears little resemblance to a free market. Housing and cities are one of the most tightly regulated markets in the US. The level of detail that most zoning codes go into in the US is mind boggling. For instance, with regard to parking minimums, here in Bend, we have this (which was probably cut and pasted from some other town): > "Beauty parlor and Barber shop: 3 spaces for each of the first 2 beauty or barber chairs, and 1½ spaces for each additional chair" That is most emphatically not what I would call a 'free market', but rather detailed and specific government regulation. I'm not a libertarian and I do not think markets solve all the world's problems - far from it. However it is undeniable when you start looking into the details, that these markets are very, very far from "free markets".