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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by TulliusCicero on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:36PM (#15833583)
No, because human civilization doesn't depend on that growth. A stable population works fine.

Whereas, the whole "enrich myself off property values" thing only works if those values are continually increasing.

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by lisper on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:15PM (#15833809)
> A stable population works fine.

That is far from clear. No human civilization has ever had a stable population.

> the whole "enrich myself off property values" thing only works if those values are continually increasing.

That's true, but that's not what I was talking about. What I was talking about is people's reasonable desire for a stable environment. Rising housing costs is just a side-effect of that plus population growth.

You might as well blame the situation on people who have babies as on people who want to limit growth in their communities.

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