Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem
by lisper on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:15PM
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> 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.
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.