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I'm VERY glad to see some evidence that rebukes the reddit/liberal hive-mind belief that we can fix the housing crisis by just "doing housing first policies" or
by Der_Einzige 2y ago
I'm VERY glad to see some evidence that rebukes the reddit/liberal hive-mind belief that we can fix the housing crisis by just "doing housing first policies" or "build more" or "kill all NIMBYs".
In general, most similar platitudes that appear like easy explanations for social problems are at best extraordinarily incomplete and are often dead wrong.
- buttercraft 2y ago> platitudes > reddit/liberal hive-mind Do you hear yourself?
- mrangle 2y agoBoth can be true at the same time, and are: Housing costs in the US are much more complicated than consumer supply and demand measurements indicate The US housing supply is embarrassingly ancient, overpriced (especially considering condition), and deficient in volume (especially given quality). You don't really have an argument when $1500 gets renters baseboard heating in a 40+ year old building in a secondary city.
- lucaspm98 2y agoAs I understand it the "liberal hive mind" believes the exact opposite - that some bogeyman, typically either corporations or foreign investors, prevent functional supply and demand dynamics. Therefore they don't support a free market, typically more right-leaning, solution of deregulation and relaxed zoning restrictions.