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All you people claiming that the only way to reduce housing costs is to build more housing are missing the other only way to reduce housing costs. Remember, th
by manicdee 8y ago
All you people claiming that the only way to reduce housing costs is to build more housing are missing the other only way to reduce housing costs.
Remember, there is not only supply but also demand.
We need to reduce population growth to below zero. A sustainable world population is probably close to 0.9B, far less than the current level of about 9B, and significantly less than projected “stable” population of around 11B
Current world population is expansionist and we are down to less than 300 years worth of phosphates, with no plans to reclaim phosphates from the ocean.
- mdorazio 8y agoThat doesn't work because it's not only general population growth that's driving housing shortages in cities, it's that people are moving to popular cities from less popular places. San Francisco doesn't have a housing problem because too many people had babies in the last 10 years, it has a housing problem because way more people want to move to San Francisco from other US cities than it can support. Another way to think about it: Japan's population is flat or declining depending on the stat you look at, but Tokyo is still increasing in population.
- manicdee 8y agoIs Japan’s population currently 1/10th of its peak?
- jupp0r 8y agoGermany's population growth is already negative, people still want to live in cities, hence they grow while rural areas decline.