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Density works but isn't it just kicking the can down the road until population growth and inflation drives prices up again?
by ioseph 3y ago
Density works but isn't it just kicking the can down the road until population growth and inflation drives prices up again?
- civilized 3y agoIs there supposed to be a one-time eternal solution, a solution that isn't just kicking a can down a road? The only way to keep housing affordable without building more, and have some semblance of fairness, would be to stop new building, impose a price/rent cap, then have a lottery to determine who gets the limited supply of houses. That is a one-time eternal solution that satisfies degrowth ideology, so long as you're willing to ignore the unlucky folks in the lottery.
- spaniard89277 3y agoIm on mobile, so much comments. Yes, but no. The root of the problem is that you cant build land and that's an impossible problem to solve. Supply solutions provide enough time window to think on demand solutions. It is possible, don't get paralized because you'll have a different set of problems in the future.
- seanp2k2 3y agoYou can’t build land, but in cities we deal with that by stacking floors on top of each other, turning one square foot of land into 100 if we want. Trying so hard to preserve rundown two-story crap boxes built in the postwar era just because some folks think that’s what SF should look like isn’t a solution.
- api 3y agoYou think driving prices up in SF would help?