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Because there are tremendous social costs to intentionally causing housing shortages. https://www.axios.com/the-great-stagnation-americans-stopped-moving-to-fi
by nerfhammer 9y ago
Because there are tremendous social costs to intentionally causing housing shortages.
https://www.axios.com/the-great-stagnation-americans-stopped-moving-to-find-work-1513304509-8089d4c1-781d-4265-b62f-e3ac02356a8e.html https://www.axios.com/the-great-stagnation-americans-stopped...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-sentiment-reflected-in-zoning-laws-thwarts-equality.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-...
- apercu 9y agoRight, but we're not talking about housing, we're talking about Amazon.
- melq 9y agoWell, no, you're talking about NIMBYism. But bringing in Amazon is going to necessitate adding housing stock, and that just doesn't happen in like Boston that already have housing issues and rampant NIMBYism.