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> It seems more like the proponents of cheap housing want to encourage lots of people to move into the city... No. The person pouring coffee to the wealthy sho
by throwaway55554 7y ago
> It seems more like the proponents of cheap housing want to encourage lots of people to move into the city...
No. The person pouring coffee to the wealthy shouldn't have to drive 50 miles to work one way. Or live in an apartment with 7 roommates.
That's not encouraging people to move there, that's taking care of the people already there.
- brianwawok 7y agoIn a free market, wages would raise until either you are paying the guy pouring coffee $30 an hour - or someone is willing to commute the required distance?
- shuckles 7y agoIn a free market, a developer could demolish a SFH to build a tall building with lots of micro units so that low income workers could live near where they work with relative dignity.
- throwaway55554 7y agoIs the market really free anymore? Supply and demand is so out of whack now that there's so much money flooded into the world economy. The wealthy are buying up real estate and other assets left and right. The middle class and poor can never keep up. There's a vortex sucking money from the middle class straight to the wealthy and everyone seems to be OK with that.