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> housing is unaffordable due to government intervention, plain and simple, since government debased the money housing became a store of wealth Actually, big a

• robertlagrant 2y ago
  > which, plain and simple, are the reason for the housing crisis It's plain and simple, but not necessarily true. There are multiple factors. We build housing at a far, far lower rate than we import people, never mind organic population growth. That alone doesn't require any conspiracy theories to explain the reason housing is more expensive and subdivided into smaller units: demand is massively outstripping supply, and it's not a luxury. People just have to pay more for it.
• lurking15 2y ago
  > plain and simple, are the reason for the housing crisis we have decades of evidence that policy artificially raised housing prices into unaffordability, and of course everything else worth having that's also been involved with heavy government regulation has risen beyond the reach of lower and middle classes: health care, education, food. the obvious answer is that money has been debased which means that EVERY that's purchased with money will be harder to afford.