Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem
by jseliger on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:00PM
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People are selfish; if they make a big investment and you're about to reduce its value, they will fight tooth and nail. Any conversation about 'right', 'wrong', 'moral', it all goes out the window.
Yet this problem got started in the 1970s: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-..., and I don't think human nature suddenly changed then. So what did?
In addition, Tokyo doesn't have this problem: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-....
So it's probably something other than pure selfishness per se.