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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by dredmorbius on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:39PM (#14563144)
The housing crisis is the result of both policy and innate incentives to rentier asset inflation. If you want to attack housing, you've got to change the system, not simply construction.

We know how to build attractive and high-density housing. And there's a hell of a lot room for improvement above Palo Alto's 960 persons/km^2

Redondo Beach, CA, ranked at #132 on the list of most densly-populated U.S. cities, clocks in at 3,900/km^2.

Changing tax laws, real-estate financing, and costs of failure to develop will have a far greater impact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by nwah1 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:50PM (#14563806)
Well said. Unfortunately, California has Prop 13 which prevents implementation of reforms such as the Land Value Tax.
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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by dredmorbius on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:10PM (#14564874)
An obvious place to start concentrating fire.
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