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It's not just regulations to prevent new housing, it is corporate driven inflation on all goods as well as housing
by beedeebeedee 2y ago
It's not just regulations to prevent new housing, it is corporate driven inflation on all goods as well as housing
- TulliusCicero 2y agoIt's mostly not the corporations in this case. I mean, there's the algorithmic price fixing that's a problem for sure, but if we had enough housing that would only be a minor issue. Price fixing is simply a much bigger problem any time regulations make it harder to get new entrants, new "disruptors". Plus, there's an avenue that avoids corporations entirely: public housing. But our local and state governments can't get off their asses long enough to actually address the problem directly, it's so much easier to either let people suffer or blame dastardly 'greedy landlords'. (Landlords are greedy of course, but that's not new, and they can only make their greed manifest to the extent that competition is limited)