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Re:The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It by saint-loup on Thursday April 07, 2016 @02:27PM (#11449420)
>> A way to look at it would be that SF's sphere of rent influence would end up shrinking, but the magnitude of the epicenter remains unaffected.

This is roughly the conjecture of Marchetti's constant :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant

See also induced demand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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