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> And more people will be able to live there... Isn't that the goal? The goal is "I want to be able to afford to live here." The only way to really affect pri
by xienze 9y ago
> And more people will be able to live there... Isn't that the goal?
The goal is "I want to be able to afford to live here." The only way to really affect prices is to absolutely flood the market with new housing. You can't just do it with a couple hundred units here, a couple hundred units there. Everyone in the world wants to live in SF, remember? They're just going to get snapped up and housing will still be expensive, the only real difference is that there's some more people living there now.
- astrange 9y agoI doubt everyone in the world wants to live in a city with bad transit, unusable public schools and feces everywhere, but if you want to reduce demand you could try and prop up some competitor cities instead.