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> Stability in housing is a highly desirable goal even at the cost of efficiency of markets. So just give poor people money. If somebody needs shoes you can bu
by dionidium 5y ago
> Stability in housing is a highly desirable goal even at the cost of efficiency of markets.
So just give poor people money. If somebody needs shoes you can buy them a pair of shoes. You don't have to set price caps on shoe sales. (Meanwhile, if you have laws that are artificially limiting the production of shoes, then you should probably get rid of those laws and let people make more shoes if they want to.)
- igammarays 5y agoThe entire point of my comment was to say that commodity products like shoes cannot be compared to housing. There is no psychological cost to changing shoes. There is no effect on community development. Moving homes, however, has second and third-order destructive effects, on families, communities, and even individual mental health. The point is not the price-cap, the point is stability in housing is a desirable goal.
- dionidium 5y agoIt is illegitimate to seize real property to protect a third party from the psychological costs of moving.
- igammarays 5y agoIt is illegitimate to allow rent-seekers to take advantage of a capital position to force people out of their homes.
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