and if you said: well, I would love to build a better machine; here are the forces preventing me from building this machine, and here are the reasons your proposed alternative will be even worse---
I'm going on and on. The main point I'm trying to make is that if you have more than a handful of landlords (which is usually the case), increasing the number of units available relative to the number of people who wants units makes them compete *with each other* on price
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The best way to lower prices and make things better for people who need housing is (i) let developers build lots of dense units near cities where they're wanted--and strict zoning laws prevent this; and (ii) make it easier for new developers to enter and compete
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This has become an absurdly long thread and I will pause now, thank you for reading through. I hope at least that you get the impression we want the same outcome, and that at least people like me are thinking seriously about how to get there.
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