If you don’t allow enough X to be produced then it isn’t the market which excludes people from having X; the market/prices just deliver the bad news to the marginal people you decided didn’t really need an X available.
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It's easy to suggest building homes as a universal solution when a city like Tokyo can spread out. It is an overly simplistic solution for a city like San Francisco that is geographically constrained
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Did you just refer to Tokyo, whose urban extent goes right to the mountains, as "a city that can spread out"?
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This is a great poem
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2002 a law was passed that deregulated the market and took the ability of municipalities the ability to control private property. Thus allowing private owners to do what they wanted. It quickly solved the problem they had
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something something americans are only allowed to make decisions that benefit anyone in the short term
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I lived in subsidized housing in Tokyo, had a two bedroom (2LDK), an hour from downtown, 10 minute walk to station, for 18% of my salary. (And my salary there was less than half what it is here in the Bay Area)
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Is the cultural difference that making 2-3x profit on homes and houseflipping isn't really an expected thing in Japan?
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Yes, let's simplify the housing crisis into a soundbite. "But cities like Mountain View refuse to 'build homes,' so companies lean on cities w/old infrastructure like Oakland and San Francisco to house their-" "BUILD HOMES!" "This wetland is-" "BUILD HOMES!"
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What do Republicans have to do with it? Find me a Republican in San Francisco.
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Also, Tokyo actually implemented a Reaganomics scheme of deregulation that allowed all this to happen.
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