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We need to break the chain of real estate speculation by building enough so you don't see 5-10% YoY real estate appreciation based on no improvements. The prob
by reducesuffering 1y ago
We need to break the chain of real estate speculation by building enough so you don't see 5-10% YoY real estate appreciation based on no improvements.
The problem is there's so much FOMO in housing, because of the 7-9% yearly appreciation, that it causes people to keep piling in assuming whatever they buy at, they'll also average 7-9% eventually, in a positive feedback loop.
When we build enough so we stop seeing that kind of appreciation, people will stop treating housing as a speculative investment asset they're going to be imminently priced out of, as they could always buy in the future when it's roughly the same price.