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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by davidf18 on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:44PM (#11511953)
Actually, because of the "rent seeking" of using politics to artificially constrain supply creating artificial scarcity, their property is valued much more than it should be valued without the market inefficiency. So, yes, their property values will fall because they were artificially inflated. The same happened to NYC Taxi Medallion owners where each medallion had a market value of $1.2 million because of the artificial limit of medallions and once Uber came along, the value dropped to $700,000.

Similarly, billionaire developers like Donald Trump will see his property values drop but that is only because they were artificially inflated.

Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by kbenson on Saturday April 16, 2016 @06:24PM (#11512548)
> the value dropped to $700,000.

Looks more like $500,000 now[1]. Although, I have no idea how accurate or trustworthy that site is, it just came up quick from Google.

1: http://nycitycab.com/business/taximedallionlist.aspx

Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by warfangle on Sunday April 17, 2016 @11:50AM (#11514941)
Wasn't just uber and lyft, the outer borough taxis steppd up their game after they were allowed to pick up street hails (but not in Manhattan).