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Put differently, "affordable housing" and "housing as investment" are at odds. People don't acknowledge this tension enough, I suspect because many people want
by yt-sdb 5y ago
Put differently, "affordable housing" and "housing as investment" are at odds. People don't acknowledge this tension enough, I suspect because many people want to switch to the housing-as-investment team.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoIt’s exactly this. Imagine if we restricted how many cars could be made a year, with the predictable result of new and used car prices steadily increasing every year. And then when anyone suggested what maybe we should let car makers make more cars, you got a bunch of people complaining about the property values of the cars they already owned, or that this would ruin car culture.
- burmer 5y agoIronically, people do kind of do this, with discussions about traffic, except that nobody benefits. Everyone wants to drive, and no one wants to be stuck in traffic. Restrictions on driving like tolls or special driving zones, bus lanes, etc. all seem to meet the same kinds of headwinds in the US. Maybe this is too far of a stretch for a connection, but your comment got me thinking.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoWell, yes. Americans have sort of a brain block when it comes to driving vs any other mode of transportation. It’s at least partially rational, though: usually non-car transportation is hilariously impractical wherever they currently live, and also wherever they’ve lived in the past. The struggle is to get people to see what could be possible when they have minimal to no experience with it.