On fundamental tensions between class interests regarding housing:https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/937747372284682240 …
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How do you choose a society where homes are ubiquitous & inexpensive? Are there examples other than places where people don't want to live and don't have money for housing?
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Tokyo for one, which definitely doesn’t have no one wanting to live it it.
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Multiple senior politicians in Canada have recently said that they "want to make housing more affordable," before continuing in the same sentence "but don't want to reduce the equity people have built up in their homes".
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Closest possible option for this is wage and goods inflation, static house prices (restrict lending levels to prevent house prices rising).
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How do we design homes to appreciate?
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Zoning laws that restrict development in areas with a lot of housing demand...come see any San Francisco government meeting on a large new development.
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Yes as long as houses are the fundamental way that many Americans can save money for old age and pass on something to their kids there is a vested interest in keeping them scarce.
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Yeah, but people don't own land, they own a housing unit. Allowing density would indeed increase the value of land, but lower the value of each individual housing unit.
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Their American dream becomes your American treadmill
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