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> Only if the old housing stock isn't torn down to make room for the new housing stock This is about zoning too. Normally, if the demand is there for it a smar

• seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  Yes, that is exactly what is happening in Ballard (Seattle area) right now. Those cheap 100 year old low income housing complexes (one or two stories) are being raised for a bunch fo three story townhomes, smart developers can sell each of those town homes for $1 million each, and they could get much less if they kept it as a hotel-like complex. I just bought one of those town homes, so I'm not going to complain too much, but I'm self aware about what is going on here. So poor people are still getting screwed. My daily walk to the grocery store passes by a few places that are pretty shabby (so low income) and right across the street they are building a bunch of luxury town homes. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what will happen to those shabby places in a year or so.
• jjav 5y ago
  > a smart land owner would build more housing on the same plot This is an uncomfortably extremist position, should maximizing revenue per investment be the one and only consideration society takes into account? I do many things that provide joy in life in other ways, even if I know they don't maximize revenue or savings. I wouldn't want to go through life thinking about nothing else than ROI for every action.