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There are always shortages, it's just what you choose to be short on. There are only so many apartments of X size a 10 minute walk from Y, that have a view. T
by dantheman 7y ago
There are always shortages, it's just what you choose to be short on. There are only so many apartments of X size a 10 minute walk from Y, that have a view. There are real limitations.
There can only be so many 2 acre beach front houses near city X.
We make tradeoffs on these things -- now the one big problem is when people force that tradeoff on others. Like banning high density housing. If they want to buy all the land that's ok, but stopping someone else is fundamentally wrong.
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- esotericn 7y agoThe number of people that enjoy those sorts of things in the UK is essentially negligible, though. That's not really what people are talking about when they discuss housing issues. The issue is more with the lack of decently sized and equipped flats, and terraced / semi detached family housing with small gardens reasonably close to transport links.
- dantheman 7y agoI completely agree -- why is new building constrained? Because those who currently own don't want things to change. In LA they just vetoed high density near train stations for exactly this reason.