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Sure. You can pass a law that only New Yorkers are allowed to live in New York. Is it passed on by birth right? I guess that’s the city of liberty for you the
by konschubert 3y ago
Sure. You can pass a law that only New Yorkers are allowed to live in New York.
Is it passed on by birth right?
I guess that’s the city of liberty for you then.
- gadders 3y agoI was more thinking on a national scale.
- ProcNetDev 3y agoOr you could leave.
- konschubert 3y agoHow does that make it better? I think there are valid reasons to want to control immigration, supply of housing isn’t one of them.
- gadders 3y agoYou don't think that immigrants need a place to live? The more demand you have for a thing, the higher the price goes.
- konschubert 3y agoBig that’s easy to solve by building more.
- gadders 3y agoIf it were that easy, it would already have been done, no?
- LoganDark 3y agoJust because something is easy doesn't mean the people in power have an incentive to do it. Or don't have an incentive not to do it.
- konschubert 3y agoPeople who have houses don't want others to have houses because that increases the value of the houses they own. Then they make up stories about "neighbourhood character" and how it's gentrification that is driving up the prices.
- LoganDark 3y agoIt took me a while to get this, but it's "not wanting others to have houses" that increases the value of the houses they own.