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There a lot of desirable areas in a country and a fixed amount of people. The equilibrium between demand and supply has the supply curve impacted by a whole ho
by someperson 6mo ago
There a lot of desirable areas in a country and a fixed amount of people.
The equilibrium between demand and supply has the supply curve impacted by a whole host of policy choices.
Eg housing is impacted by cost of permitting, regulations, cost of materials and labor etc.
All of these things can be improved by policy.
There's a strong argument that especially infrastructure but housing should be built with people on work visas.
- seanmcdirmid 6mo agoWater is the primary limiter on city population sizes in the west. I wouldn’t be surprised if San Diego wasn’t at its limit already with respect to water resources, but I haven’t looked into it. Desalination could improve that. If we could have Chinese work crews come in and build housing, especially 30 story concrete towers that are popular in Asia, we could build fairly cheaply, that isn’t really the limitation (it’s easier to solve than getting water to those new units for expanded population).
- someperson 6mo agoThey thought Vegas was at it's limit years ago, but no they found efficiency upon efficiency.
- littlexsparkee 6mo agoSan Diego in fact has a surfeit that it's looking at selling off https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/san-diego-water-sales-western-states.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/san-diego-water-s...