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This is probably the best thing the justice dept can do to help promote a competitive market for renters. Also…we need the government to encourage housing poli
by iambateman 2y ago
This is probably the best thing the justice dept can do to help promote a competitive market for renters.
Also…we need the government to encourage housing policy which produces a lot more housing stock.
The long-term reason housing is expensive is because there aren’t enough good houses and zoning has a lot to do with that.
- acdha 2y ago> we need the government to encourage housing policy which produces a lot more housing stock. It’s really not “the government” but existing homeowners and especially old ones. Many politicians would love to add housing and especially density because that boosts businesses, tax revenue, use of local services, etc. but the idea that your house is going to pay for your retirement has a lot of people afraid of changes which could lower their valuation, and that makes it extremely hard to get things like zoning laws changed.