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Brad Feld wrote a pretty scathing response to this piece, and as someone who lived in the Denver / Boulder area growing up, I have to agree with him. http://ww

• walshemj 12y ago
  might the racial make up of googles staff have something to do with it?
• jseliger 12y ago
  Nice post. But I left this as a comment: I'm perplexed that in the midst of a piece about rising housing prices, no one mentions housing supply. The tools necessary to increase housing supply in the face of rising demand have been available since the early 1900s—as discussed extensively here, in The Rent is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO)—and http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO)—and yet this endless series of articles doesn't mention the obvious. The solution to rising prices is to increase the supply of the good in question. Yet reporters rarely seem to mention this, and they treat rising housing prices as some kind of law of nature.
  • mathattack 12y ago
    The strange thing is that the same things that people use to fight rent increases (rent control, etc) wind up creating perverse incentives that reduce the quality and quantity of the housing stock. If you want cheap rent, encourage people to build houses.