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How 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 ago
  You 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 ago
    Big that’s easy to solve by building more.
    • gadders 3y ago
      If it were that easy, it would already have been done, no?
      • LoganDark 3y ago
        Just 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 ago
          People 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 ago
            It 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.
            • gadders 3y ago
              There is also the "please don't concrete over every last piece of green space".
              • LoganDark 3y ago
                New houses aren't the solution to droves and droves of empty ones. There are plenty of existing homes that should be available.