I hear people saying "new housing is getting bought up as an investment vehicle, building more just helps the rich". Of course this is factually incorrect, but even more importantly, *in a world where enough housing gets built, housing is a depreciating asset, not an investment*.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1437566790565957632 …
The only other factor is land scarcity (alleviated via density ans transportation infrastructure). There is no third factor.
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Here's another - Rich people often want to live near other rich people. So even if hypothetically costs remained constant or went down, you could still demand higher prices for any new house in Palo Alto, e.g. You don't think?
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