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Exactly, nobody flocks to housing on its own: people migrate to job opportunities. Which increase with population density. If you increase housing where there i
by the_gipsy 3y ago
Exactly, nobody flocks to housing on its own: people migrate to job opportunities. Which increase with population density. If you increase housing where there is already demand due to job opportunities, then you increase density there, and then you increase the job opportunities again, and thus you increase the demand even more than what you satisfied with the new housing.
It's not as simple as "build more houses!".
- satvikpendem 3y agoI don't think you understand what I'm saying. The cycle you're talking about is not an infinite process, nor is it guaranteed that people will flock somewhere just because there is more housing, because it is also not guaranteed that job opportunities increase due to lowered housing. You have your causality incorrect there.
- the_gipsy 3y agoIt's obviously not infinite because, as I said, there is a physical ceiling to how much housing you can cram into an area until it's too expensive. When you reach that ceiling you did not improve anything, on the contrary.
- satvikpendem 3y agoOkay, you cram as much housing as you want in an area, then what? Just because you build X number of houses does not mean that X number of people will move there. That is what I'm saying, your order of cause and effect is reversed.