i agree that housing costs are much higher than they need to be and share your stated goal of fixing this problem i am only suggesting that your proposed solution will not lead to the end you desire and in fact will backfire Spectacularly, and poor people will bear the cost
This is less true in less-competitive markets, and there are definitely companies that spend a lot of time shivving consumers. My old boss at the Federal Reserve called (eg) credit card companies "obfuscopolies," for instance. It's dark stuff. And . . .
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by and large companies can only get away with that shit if they're not at risk of losing their customers to competitors. This happens with monopolies, and it happens when there are only a few companies that can collude. This definitely happens too, and in real estate to an extent
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Certain cities that I will not mention have a really bad reputation for chummy collusion by asshole developers. FWIW neoclassical economists hate this and related shit, and if you here one accuse someone of being a "rent seeker" it's akin to saying "die in a fire"
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